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Honda Lab
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A lab that studies how to build a society resilient to uncertain disasters, using network science and theory.
AboutAbout the lab
Strengthening the ability to respond to and recover from disasters.
The Honda Lab studies how society responds to and recovers from risks such as natural disasters.
Because the impacts of disasters can never be fully prevented, expectations are growing for the response capacity and resilience of society and communities.
Drawing on ideas such as social networks and adaptive systems theory, the lab investigates the mechanisms by which communities respond to situations of great uncertainty.
The lab also works on developing methods that can rationally evaluate infrastructure development and disaster prevention plans, even under deep uncertainty.
Key terms
- Social networks
- A way of viewing the connections among people or organizations as a web. The way they are connected changes how a group behaves.
- Risk management
- The ideas and procedures for estimating possible losses in advance, and for reducing them or preparing for them.
- Seismic design
- Determining the structure of buildings, bridges, and other constructions so that they resist damage from earthquake shaking.
ResearchResearch themes
To strengthen society's response capacity and resilience to risks such as natural disasters, the lab studies the mechanisms by which communities respond to highly uncertain situations, from the perspectives of social networks, adaptive systems theory, and related fields. Another research focus is the creation of new methods for disaster countermeasures and risk management in infrastructure development and maintenance that remain rational even under deep uncertainty.
*Illustrative imageRationally evaluating disaster prevention plans
The lab studies methods for appropriately quantifying the effects of seismic design and disaster prevention plans. The aim is to evaluate disaster prevention plans while rationally taking into account the impact of catastrophic disasters whose probability of occurrence is unclear.
*Illustrative imageHow communities adapt to disasters
The lab analyzes how communities respond to disasters, focusing on areas with ongoing disaster prevention activities and on government organizations and communities in disaster-affected areas. This research focuses on the structure of social networks and models the mechanisms by which communities adapt to their environment.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorRiki HondaPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “US Navy 050102-N-9593M-040 A village near the coast of Sumatra lays in ruin after the Tsunami that struck South East Asia” U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Philip A. McDaniel / Public domain (cropped)
- Rationally evaluating disaster prevention plans: “Fukuoka Growth Next the seismic retrofit carried out on the former Daimyō Elementary School building Fukuoka 20241231” Hirho / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- How communities adapt to disasters: “Temporary housings for tsunami evacuees in Shichigahama” Daisuke TSUDA / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Meguro-Ohara-Numada Lab): “Cypress structure” H.G. Wilshire, U.S. Geological Survey / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (River and Watershed Environment Lab, Kawasaki Group): “Defense.gov photo essay 111016-M-ZN194-151” Cpl. Robert J. Maurer / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Ohara Lab (Disaster Risk Reduction)): “Arayat33jf” Ramon FVelasquez / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kiyota Lab): “Manhole shows subsidence occurred by 2011 Sendai earthquake” On-chan / CC0 (cropped)
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