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Paper
Managing Spatial Information to Utilize Disaster Records for Community Safety
Track: Disaster Management and Emergency Response
Author(s): Keiko Inagaki, Satoru SADOHARA

Finding specific regional characteristics and developing local community strategies against disaster is important. This paper outlines a study dealing with methods for gathering spatial information about past disasters and providing disaster warnings to various communities in order to develop safe communities in Yokohama, Japan. In the study, local citizens were asked during neighborhood meetings to draw disasters they are aware of on paper maps of their local communities. As a result, characteristics of who recognizes regional disasters (especially storms), and how such disaster records should be accumulated and utilized for community safety were clarified. This paper also proposes methods for transforming disaster records into spatial information in a GIS to develop local community safety strategies. Spatial information collected about disasters in each community was recorded as regional history.

Keiko Inagaki
Yokohama National University
79-7, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku
Yokohama 240-8501
JP
Phone: +81-45-339-4247
Fax: +81-45-338-1016
E-mail: keiko@arc.ynu.ac.jp

Satoru SADOHARA
Yokohama National University
79-7, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku
Yokohama 240-8501
JP
Phone: +81-45-339-4247
E-mail: sato610@arc.ynu.ac.jp