Overview
- Is a comprehensive study on disaster-resistant city planning plans based on lessons of the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
- Reveals data collected as rescue activities were undertaken and rehabilitation and reconstruction plans were constructed
- Provides useful information for policy makers and city planners in charge of risk management in disaster-prone areas
Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives (NFRSASIPER, volume 58)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The author argues that the rescue activities, rehabilitation, and reconstruction plans for disaster countermeasures implemented once a disaster has occurred and the cityplanning 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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Visiting Lecturer, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
Former Vice-Minister, National Land Agency, Prime Minister’s Office, Government of Japan
Former Director-General, National Headquarters for Reconstruction & Rehabilitation of Hanshin-Awaji
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disaster Management and City Planning
Book Subtitle: Lessons of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
Authors: Yasuhisa Mitsui
Series Title: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1808-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1807-0Published: 02 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1810-0Published: 03 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-1808-7Published: 01 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2199-5974
Series E-ISSN: 2199-5982
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 380
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Public Economics, Environment, general