防災問題における資料解析研究(21)

Abstract

Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, was established in April, 1993. The mission statement is "A holistic paradigm for disaster reduction in catastrophe". The background of the rough requirement proposed to Ministry of Education, Science and Culture was introduced, because it includes future innovative situation of the Center. The fusion approach of natural science and social one is a strong tool to establish disaster reduction systems which are closely correlated with human factor of the disasters as well as physical aspects. In the database SAIGAI, the registered number of documents are about 40, 000 and in a historical database more than 6, 000 writings were compiled. The abstract of the open lecture about disaster history and disaster reduction systems was presented in this paper. The international network of disaster information was promoted by Adjunct Professor in the Center.