Disaster management and city planning : lessons of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake / Yasuhisa Mitsui.
2022
HT166
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Title
Disaster management and city planning : lessons of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake / Yasuhisa Mitsui.
Author
Mitsui, Yasuhisa.
ISBN
9789811918087 (electronic bk.)
9811918082 (electronic bk.)
9789811918070
9811918074
9811918082 (electronic bk.)
9789811918070
9811918074
Publication Details
Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (411 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-1808-7 doi
Call Number
HT166
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.1/216
Summary
This book first provides a comprehensive guideline for future disaster-resistant city planning in large cities in disaster-prone countries such as Japan. It is a compilation of knowledge and know-how obtained through the authors work in the national government for one and half years in the Earthquake Reconstruction Headquarters, right after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on 17 January 1995. The author has carefully examined the various ad hoc measures taken just after the earthquake, which were criticized because they did not work as well as expected. Additionally, he has examined the later revisions in disaster and risk management systems made at the levels of local and national governments through experience in the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, to which the author had long been committed. The author argues that the rescue activities, rehabilitation, and reconstruction plans for disaster countermeasures implemented once a disaster has occurred and the city planning established in ordinary times should be extremely tightly connected with each other. City planning that subsumes rescue activities, rehabilitation, and reconstruction plans against what ought to have happened would critically improve the capability of crisis management and, consequently, protect life and property once a disaster has occurred. Such city planning eventually creates disaster-resistant cities. This book assumes readers to be graduate students who study city planning. It is also beneficial for practitioners and policy makers who are in charge of the construction of disaster-resistant cities at the national and local levels of governments, especially in disaster-prone countries.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 15, 2022).
Series
New frontiers in regional science: Asian perspectives ; v. 58.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Initial Response Systems used for Major Earthquakes and Disaster-resistant City Planning
Chapter 2. Theory of Spare City Planning: for Temporary Use in Case of Emergency
Chapter 3. Reconstruction Plans
Chapter 4. Summary and Issues That Need to Be Considered
Chapter 5. Conclusion: How to embrace lessons learnt from previous earthquake disasters.
Chapter 2. Theory of Spare City Planning: for Temporary Use in Case of Emergency
Chapter 3. Reconstruction Plans
Chapter 4. Summary and Issues That Need to Be Considered
Chapter 5. Conclusion: How to embrace lessons learnt from previous earthquake disasters.