Landform and Vulnerability for Disaster in Land Use Changing

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The fluvial and coastal landforms have important roles causing natural disaster and had influence on disaster-stricken area of liquefaction under the expansion of land use changing in the Tone River lowland. In this chapter, the disaster vulnerability, specific liquefaction, is designated upon several mesh maps of risk levels, landform, land use, and vulnerability transformation of liquefaction on land use changing in the case of the lower Tone River floodplain. The liquefaction vulnerability is brought by physical dimensions as the scale of earthquake, the distance from hypocentral region, landform and sedimentation, underground water table, etc., and the other hand, the human dimensions as recent rapid land use change and regional planning without knowledge of geomorphology are accelerating higher vulnerable level, low resilience, and longer period for resuscitation from disaster. The land use changing with urban sprawl on site has been inducing to be new and transforming vulnerability level. Geomorphology demonstrates landform process and explaining the former natural disaster occurrence history and vulnerability level of disaster; therefore, understanding disaster vulnerability on site in the fluvial and coastal plain would support future regional planning toward to secure from disaster mitigation and appropriate land use pattern planning should be discussed in future. The essential of risk reduction needs appropriate sustainable education, and the geomorphology should be core subject due to secure for lives.

Keywords

Vulnerability Fluvial landform Coastal landform Land use change Liquefaction Risk Landform Mesh map 
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Acknowledgement

I should offer my thanks for Mr. Sho Naruse who supported for my research of liquefaction assessment along the lower Tone River in 2011 and 2012. The late Dr. Masahiko Oya who was a superior fluvial geomorphologist and the author studied with him the lower Tone River and prepared geomorphologic land classification map of Lake Kasumigaura and surrounding. These joint researches are important groundwork of this chapter and the author should express my thanks for Dr. Masahiko Oya.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Graduate School of BioresourceMie UniversityTsuJapan

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