Abstract
 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 |
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