2.0 Credits, 1, 2 Year, SprAB Fri1,2
Michitaka Umemoto, Yohei Kinoshita
Course Overview
This course deals with risk management on various natural and man-made hazards in urban area. At first, meanings and characteristics of urban disaster and several aspects of direct damages and indirect affections by various hazards are explained from a viewpoint of structural and non-structural vulnerabilities. Then, based on risk management process including identification, assessment and treatment of risk, students analyze data regarding disaster risk in a real city, interpret the results, consider appropriate countermeasures and present their own plan. Through these works, appropriate risk management against urban disaster risk will be discussed.
Course Objectives(Learning Outcomes)
Class goals and themes
1) To understand various natural disaster risks and man-made disaster risks in urban areas.
2) Understand the mechanisms of various disaster occurrences
3) Understand the basics of disaster risk management
4) To understand basic disaster prevention measures for urban disasters through analysis using data on urban disaster risk.
5) To support the ability to propose measures for risk management for urban disasters, based on the acquisition of basic knowledge about urban disaster risk and the understanding of the process of urban disaster risk management, combining lectures and exercises, factor analysis on the case of urban disaster risk.
Course Keywords
Urban and Reginal Area, Disaster Risk Reduction, risk management, Risk Perception.
Textbooks, References,and Supplementary Materials
Handouts will be ditributed and References will be shown in the lecture.
Relation to Other Courses
0AL5309 Topics in Risk and Resilience Engineering in Master's Program (Theory of Urban Disaster Mitigation and Risk Information)
0AL5310 Risk Communication
0AL5312 Seminar in Resilient Urban Planning
0AL5315 Disaster Risk and Resilience
0AL5319 Policy and case study on information-intelligence-based disaster risk management