地震防災の中長期的課題と戦略 -都市空間安全制御の観点から-

Abstract

This manuscript describes the important yet remaining issues for earthquake disaster prevention and risk reduction on urban built environment and effective strategies for it under the foreseeable mid or long-term considerations. The fundamental problems in the current seismic safety of buildings are primarily based on the non-rational and quite obsolete code implementation in the Japanese building code. The situation has been proved to be true as pro-side during the Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake (the Great Higashi-Nihon Disaster), while as down-side during the Kobe Earthquake (the Great Hanshin-Awaji Disaster). The author summarized what we have to learn from these painful lessons and proposes a new strategy directly derived from the summaries based on the previous experiences without preoccupation.