scholarly journals Preface to the special issue on major earthquake hazards and disaster reduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-35
Author(s):  
Zhongtai He ◽  
Dun Wang ◽  
Lihua Fang ◽  
Zhikun Ren ◽  
Xiwei Xu
Keyword(s):  
Earthquake Hazards ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Disaster Reduction ◽  
Major Earthquake

Special Issue on the First World Bosai Forum

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1233-1233
Author(s):  
Fumihiko Imamura ◽  
Yuichi Ono ◽  
Daisuke Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Disaster Reduction ◽  
Urban Disaster ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Safety ◽  
First World

The World Bosai Forum was held at the Sendai International Center and Kawauchi Hagi Hall, Tohoku University, bringing together 947 participants from over 42 countries. This was nearly double the number of participants that we had initially expected. Proactive and meaningful discussions were held by a wide range of officials and experts from domestic and overseas industries, governments, academia, and private sectors, as well as by local citizens. From our partnership with the Asian Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction (ACUDR) and International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia (USMCA), we had a total of 126 participants. We successfully created a platform for building international cooperation to share and resolve the current situation and handle various challenges for Bosai or disaster risk reduction. Practical and effective discussions have contributed to raising and promoting awareness of Bosai and the Sendai Framework 2015–2030 to the world from Sendai. Our first World Bosai Forum was concluded with productive outcomes, and its future meetings will be held every 2 years. The guest editors of this special issue are pleased to publish valuable academic papers presented at the first World Bosai Forum. As you may notice, this research stems from a wide variety of current issues. The nature of interdisciplinary approaches may be unique to the World Bosai Forum, and the guest editors hope that this special issue will contribute to enhanced recognition of the Forum.

Special Issue on Protecting Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities from Disasters

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Author(s):  
Kazuyuki Izuno ◽  
Takeyuki Okubo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Disaster Reduction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Masonry ◽  
Wooden Structures ◽  
Near Future

Natural disasters have damaged or destroyed many invaluable cultural heritages. How to mitigate these losses, however, is difficult question. If we cannot save human lives, of course we cannot save cultural heritages from disasters. This requires more sophisticated countermeasures than conventional disaster reduction methodologies. This special issue of JDR provides many examples of such mitigation in historical cities which have expanded with cultural heritages as nuclei. Cultural heritage disaster mitigation lies somewhere between the fields of cultural preservation and the disaster mitigation engineering. The first two review papers focus on the importance of protecting cultural heritage from natural disasters and the history of this issue from the viewpoints of both engineering and humanities. Twelve papers discuss engineering problems and the planning of cultural heritages preservation, cover issues such as the seismic performance of traditional wooden structures, the vulnerability of historical masonry structures, disaster reduction in slope failures around cultural heritages, disaster risk analysis at historical cities, fire prevention in historical cities, and urban planning taking cultural heritage into consideration. This issue closes with a tutorial paper showing the techniques and basics of cultural heritage disaster mitigation. It serves as a practical handbook on mitigating disasters surrounding cultural heritages and historical cities. We expect contributors to this field to increase in the near future due to the importance and urgency of cultural heritage disaster mitigation. We thank the authors for their earnest contributions and the reviewers for their invaluable advice on improving the quality of this special issue of JDR.

scholarly journals Special Issue on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster: Part II

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (sp) ◽  
pp. 729-729
Author(s):  
Haruo Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Disaster Reduction ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Earthquake Disaster ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi

The Journal of Disaster Research (JDR), published bimonthly in English since 2006 as a Japan-based academic journal, promotes multidisciplinary research on disaster reduction due to all hazards – natural, unintended and intended. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster on March 11, 2011, we have worked as our duty to provide a forum for all stakeholders and researchers in the world to describe what happened scientifically in terms of human and property damage and in subsequent social and economic damage by this unprecedented occurrence, including the incident involving Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. As one contribution, JDR is publishing special annual issues for the next five years on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster – with NO PAGE CHARGES TO CONTRIBUTORS. This effort began in 2012. The purpose of these special issues is to record, communicate and share the lessons learned from this disaster. In our second special issue, 16 papers were submitted and we are proud to introduce 11 papers touching on different aspects of the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster. We are sure you will find these papers interesting and informative. We also look forward to receiving contributions for the third special issue, which will be published in the summer of 2014.

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