Hideyuki Shiroshita

Hideyuki Shiroshita
Kansai University · Department of Safety Management

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Modern flood risk communication continues to lack the input of different stakeholder levels and as a result, there has been an insufficiency to construct communication that is inclusive of all stakeholders. There is also still an absence of consideration of context-specific information that helps to shape the communication crafting process. This st...
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This paper reports exploratory research that considers two challenges recognised in the disaster risk reduction (DRR) community in recent years: one is the reinforcement of community-based DRR and the other is experts' prioritising high-impact/low-frequency hazards. Inquiries into stakeholders’—community members’ in particular—understandings of dis...
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A team of social scientists from the United States and Japan has conducted a study exploring the extent to which municipal governments in Japan have developed plans for response to an operational earthquake forecast from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), indicating that seismic activity in the Nankai trough region has elevated the short-term p...
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Catastrophic events, including worldwide pandemics and natural disasters, may lead to ambivalent attitudes toward science among the public. On the one hand, there may be pessimistic feelings toward the limitations of scientific knowledge and technology. On the other hand, there may be optimistic prospects for science-based solutions to the problems...
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Catastrophic events, such as worldwide pandemics and disasters caused by natural hazards, may shape ambivalent attitudes among citizens toward science. On one hand, there may be pessimistic feelings toward the limitations of scientific knowledge and technology. On the other hand, at the same time there may be optimistic prospects for science-based...
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The ADN Bulletin on Coronavirus wishes everyone well and provides an update on some of the activities that ADN's members are undertaking during this challenging time. The Bulletin was was sent out to all of ADN's members on 9 April 2020.
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The international community’s strategy to assist Nepal in recovering from the 2015 Nepal Gorkha earthquake will be considered from a disaster educational perspective. In the first half of the chapter, the importance of ‘unfixing’ the relationship between experts on DRR and lay people will first be discussed since this relationship provides a platfo...
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This chapter shows that the rationale of disaster co-learning is discussed from a pedagogical perspective. It suggests that co-learning has a high possibility of constructing and sharing the meaning of disaster among stakeholders to comprehend essential disaster governance. Since disaster governance requires all stakeholders' involvement in sharing...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theoretically propose a complex perspective as the third way to understand disasters which is used to describe the Hiroshima landslide disaster 2014 in Japan. In the first half of the paper the complex perspective is explained in detail with comparison to two conventional perspectives on disasters, i.e. hazar...
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This chapter explains who needs to communicate about disaster risks and how. It also discusses what the critical information are especially in response to disasters and further how to educate people in preparation against disasters.
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Societal safety sciences are new academic systems of interdisciplinary studies that combine specialized fields of social science and humanity in addition to those of science and technology for the purposes of preventing accidents and disasters that threaten human society, containing their severity and frequencies, reducing damages, rescuing the vic...
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This chapter gives an overview of disaster prevention and mitigation, i.e., disaster management, activities by the government. Such activities by the central government involve a number of tasks including maintenance and management of infrastructures, building disaster prevention plans, and research for promoting disaster management. The central go...
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This study examines households’ immediate responses to the potential for tsunami generated by 2011 earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan. Surveys conducted in Christchurch, New Zealand and Hitachi, Japan investigated pre-impact tsunami hazard communication, immediate post-impact expectations that these earthquakes would cause tsunamis, the informati...
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It is often suggested that disaster education should not be a one-way knowledge transfer from disaster experts to non-experts, but a bilateral interaction between the two sides. In this study, the authors propose a new framework for disaster education based on legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) theory, in which disaster experts and non-exper...
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This study examines people’s response actions in the first 30 min after shaking stopped following earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan. Data collected from 257 respondents in Christchurch, 332 respondents in Hitachi, and 204 respondents in Wellington revealed notable similarities in some response actions immed...
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Beck (1992) described the modern or postindustrial landscapes as a “risk society.” The fundamental characteristic of this risk society is its interconnectedness and interdependence that makes systems and networks highly complex so much so that they are often vulnerable to abrupt failures. The landscape of risk society is highly prone to social, nat...
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This study examines people's immediate responses to earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan. Data collected from 257 respondents in Christchurch and 332 respondents in Hitachi revealed notable similarities between the two cities in people's emotional reactions, risk perceptions, and immediate protective actions during the event...
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Helbing (2013:51) poignantly argues that ‘Globalization and technological revolutions are changing our planet’. Along with the benefits and opportunities associated with worldwide collaboration networks comes ‘pathways along which dangerous and damaging events can spread rapidly and globally’. With our hyper-connected world underpinned by hyper or...
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In some areas in Japan, there have been times when even though it was desirable to evacuate the area in order to prevent or reduce the amount of damage wrought by disaster, the actual evacuation rate was low. The double bind theory has been introduced in this situation, and a new theoretical interpretation has been obtained. However, no specific co...
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An earthquake of Mw 8.8 struck off the coast of central Chile on Feb. 27, 2010. A tsunami due to the earthquake propagated on the Pacific Ocean and attacked Japan on the next day. JMA issued a major tsunami warning for many coastal regions, however severe damage occurred in many ports especially for fishery. To understand the tsunami disaster, the...

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