2012.4-2013.3 Yearbook of NILIM
Research Summary
Research Center for Disaster Management
| Reference Number | Y121301 |
| Title | Study on highly-developed operations of the landslide early-warning information |
| Start-End Date | 2011.4-2013.3 |
| Division | Erosion and Sediment Control Division |
| Author | Head, Atsushi OKAMOTO Researcher, Yasuhiro NOMURA Researcher, Yuki OKUYAMA |
| Summary | Early-warning systems for natural disasters are important tools for disaster risk reduction and for achieving sustainable development and livelihoods. In 2005, the Japanese government initiated a new nationwide early-warning system for landslides disasters. In this system, early-warning information is announced by both prefecture government and local meteorological observatory for municipalities to call for local people’s evacuation. However, this information hasn’t been utilized enough, due to the difficulty of fully understanding the information’s meaning and realizing the rising danger of landslides. Therefore, we examined the actual conditions of this information’s utilization and local people’s evacuations. As a result, we confirmed that although prefectures are providing varieties of additional data related to the early-warning information, it doesn’t effectively lead to local people’s evacuation activities. We showed the importance of making these related information to be more easy- comprehensible for municipalities’ officials and local people. |