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Urban Disaster Prevention Lab
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A lab that mathematically evaluates risks such as disasters in pursuit of safety and security in cities.
AboutAbout the lab
Pursuing urban safety and security with “Warm Heart & Cool Head”
The Urban Disaster Prevention Lab studies events that affect the safety and security of cities and regions, including earthquakes, fires, tsunamis, typhoons, heavy rain, floods and inundation, landslides, and crime.
Using mathematical approaches, the lab quantitatively evaluates vulnerability to disasters, evacuation safety, and perception of disaster risk.
Rather than stopping at understanding the facts, the lab pursues the question “so what should be done?”, and examines and proposes disaster prevention plans, recovery and reconstruction measures, and support measures for rebuilding the lives of disaster victims.
Undergraduate students join the lab through lab assignment for their graduation research in the third year of the Urban Planning major in the College of Policy and Planning Sciences.
Key terms
- Zero risk
- A state with no danger at all. The lab's website describes it as something that does not exist in daily life
- Vulnerability
- How susceptible something is to damage from a disaster. It is one of the subjects the lab evaluates mathematically
- Risk perception
- How serious people consider a danger such as a disaster to be
ResearchResearch themes
In our daily lives, there is no such thing as zero risk, which would mean absolute safety and security. Focusing mainly on natural disasters, the lab finds problems through sociological approaches and researches and proposes solutions through engineering approaches.
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MembersFaculty
Members of the Urban Disaster Prevention Lab consist of faculty, doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduate students.
- Associate ProfessorMichitaka Umemoto
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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: “Toyota Hilux Ambulance - Cabanatuan City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CCDRRMO)” Captainmorlypogi1959 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mathematically Evaluating Disaster Risk and Making Proposals: “Tsunami Evacuation Route Sign Southern California o” Tony Webster / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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