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Numada Lab
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The lab creates a "template" for disaster response in order to deal with unknown disasters.
AboutAbout the lab
Building a "template" for disaster response
Numada Lab specializes in disaster prevention process engineering, studying decision-making processes during disasters and resilience management.
The lab focuses on the challenges that government officials face at disaster response sites, and conducts its research in ways that stay close to the field.
Building on engineering, it also draws on knowledge from psychology, economics, sociology, and medicine to address complex disaster risks.
The lab operates the Disaster Management Training Center (DMTC), affiliated with the Institute of Industrial Science, and also provides specialized education in disaster management.
Key terms
- Resilience
- The ability to recover flexibly even after being hit by a disaster or similar event
- Social vulnerability
- A condition in which people are more likely to suffer disaster damage because of how society is structured, such as being unable to live without someone's support
- Disaster countermeasures headquarters
- An organization that local governments and others set up when a disaster occurs, which decides the response policy and takes command
ResearchResearch themes
The lab organizes disaster management under the framework of "disaster risk analysis," "risk governance support," "resilience assessment," and "human resource development," aiming to close the gap between practice in the field and policy. To improve disaster management capacity, it works on everything from risk analysis to system development and training.
Disaster Risk Analysis
The lab structurally analyzes disaster risk based on natural characteristics such as topography and geology, and social characteristics such as population, buildings, and industry. It also focuses on "social vulnerability," in which damage concentrates on vulnerable people and things.
Risk Governance Support and Decision-Making
Based on a framework that systematizes disaster management tasks, the lab has developed the Disaster Response Process Management System (BOSS), which has been adopted by government agencies across Japan. It supports accurate decision-making at disaster countermeasures headquarters.
Models for Assessing Resilience
The lab builds models that evaluate the effects of investment in institutions, people, and the economy by which communities and companies strengthen their disaster preparedness. It also works on assessment models that make companies' resilience efforts visible.
Disaster Management Training
Through the DMTC, the lab develops training programs for acquiring specialized knowledge and basic skills in disaster management. It also carries out practice tailored to local areas, such as measures for isolated communities.
MembersFaculty
Members of Numada Lab consist of faculty, research fellows, senior cooperating staff, technical assistants, doctoral and master's students, and exchange students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorMuneyoshi Numada
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- Top image: “Survey at a disaster site” 沼田研究室 / 研究室からの
提供 (cropped) - Disaster Risk Analysis: “Assessment of Social Vulnerability in Japan” 沼田研究室 / Used with the lab's permission (cropped)
- Risk Governance Support and Decision-Making: “Risk governance support and decision-making” 沼田研究室 / 研究室からの
提供 (cropped) - Models for Assessing Resilience: “Model for evaluating resilience” 沼田研究室 / 研究室からの
提供 (cropped) - Disaster Management Training: “Disaster preparedness training” 沼田研究室 / 研究室からの
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- Related lab (Meguro-Ohara-Numada Lab): “Cypress structure” H.G. Wilshire, U.S. Geological Survey / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Takeuchi Lab): “Southeast Asia (MODIS)” MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC / 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)
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