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Integrated Disaster Risk Management from the Perspective of Human Security Engineering

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Challenges for Human Security Engineering

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There is an urgent need to establish integrated policies against natural disasters on a worldwide basis; however, there are various reasons, which prevent the society from taking decisive action. This chapter introduces the trend of recent natural disasters, and discusses a basic disaster risk management and governance framework from the perspective of human security engineering. It addresses the constituent elements of disaster risk, how human behaviors are related with natural disaster risks, and what types of policy measures are available for disaster risk management. In addition, it introduces the CAUSE model as a framework of disaster risk governance. In reality, there are frequent situations where it is unclear who manages disaster risk, to whom the disaster risk relates to, and what are the disaster risk problems faced by the stakeholders. Various roles of communication, which are placed in the central position of CAUSE model, are clarified and an explanation is provided on how this leads to a proper establishment of disaster risk governance among stakeholders.

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Notes

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    This mainly represents direct damage. The case study in southeast India illustrates that realizing a recovery to baseline living depends on having a post-disaster financial recovery fund. Hence, indirect damage can be reduced via risk transfer that (partially) covers a fund for recovery.

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    To avoid such situations, it is necessary to severely penalize persons or companies that conduct misleading structural calculations and to strengthening the inspectorate of structural calculations. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan developed the relevant legislation after the 2005 architectural forgery in Japan. http://www.mlit.go.jp/kozogiso/index.html, (in Japanese). Accessed 24 September 2013.

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  1. Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Hirokazu Tatano

  2. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

    Mamoru Yoshida

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Yuzuru Matsuoka

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    Mamoru Yoshida

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Tatano, H., Yoshida, M. (2014). Integrated Disaster Risk Management from the Perspective of Human Security Engineering. In: Matsuoka, Y., Yoshida, M. (eds) Challenges for Human Security Engineering. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54288-9_5

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