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Disaster Management and City Planning - Lessons of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Disaster Management and City Planning - Lessons of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 58
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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 author's 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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