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Kato Lab
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The lab works together with local residents to build towns that are resilient to earthquakes and floods.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward communities where everyone can live safely
Kato Lab studies "Regional Safety Systems," which examines the community mechanisms that allow everyone to live safely and with peace of mind.
Focusing on districts where buildings, roads, and other structures are concentrated, the lab scientifically evaluates how vulnerable urban areas are to natural disasters.
The lab practices disaster-resilient community planning together with residents and local governments on the ground, and also studies preparation for recovery after disasters.
It addresses not only earthquakes but also large-scale floods that take climate change into account.
Key terms
- Regional Safety Systems
- A field that considers, at the regional level, the social mechanisms that allow everyone to live safely and with peace of mind
- Recovery preparedness
- An effort to anticipate, before a disaster occurs, the recovery challenges that might arise and to work out in advance how to solve them
- GIS
- A computer system that layers information such as buildings, population, and disaster hazards on a map for analysis. Stands for Geographic Information System
ResearchResearch themes
With the aim of reducing the risk of natural disasters, the lab's research rests on four pillars: evaluating the vulnerability of urban areas, practice in local communities, recovery from disasters, and technologies that support regional safety.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating urban vulnerability to disasters
The lab clarifies the physical mechanisms behind disaster hazards and scientifically shows the relationship between the condition of urban areas and disaster risk. Conversely, it also derives the urban conditions needed to keep risk below a certain level.
*Illustrative imageDisaster-resilient community planning with local communities
Working in collaboration with residents, local governments, NPOs, and others, the lab practices disaster-resilient community planning on the ground. It brings urban area evaluation techniques and systems that support planning into real-world settings, turning them into technologies that society can use.
*Illustrative imageRecovery from disasters and recovery preparedness
The lab's research has two parts: supporting recovery from actual disasters, and "recovery preparedness," which prepares for the next disaster. It is developing a method called "recovery situation image training," in which people anticipate and think through likely recovery conditions in advance.
*Illustrative imageInformation technology that supports regional safety
The lab develops information technologies such as GIS and the internet into technologies that serve regional safety. It also pays attention to the social mechanisms needed for society to put these technologies to good use.
MembersFaculty
The members of Kato Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, researchers, technical assistants, research students, doctoral students, and external collaborating researchers.
- ProfessorTakaaki Kato
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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: “Looking roughly east from Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office Building South Tower )” Joe Mabel on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US This photo was taken with Nikon D5000 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating urban vulnerability to disasters: “Fire of Great Hanshin earthquake Seen from Portisland” 神戸市 / CC BY 2.1 jp (cropped)
- Disaster-resilient community planning with local communities: “River locks @ Arakawa River @ Edogawa City @ Tokyo ( )” Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Recovery from disasters and recovery preparedness: “Kamaishi Bay” Highten31 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Information technology that supports regional safety: “Relief map uses GSI data - Kazo, Nakagawa, Tokyo and Arakawa Lowland” Peka / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (都市情報・安全システム研究室): “Fire of Great Hanshin earthquake Seen from Portisland” 神戸市 / CC BY 2.1 jp (cropped)
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- Related lab (都市計画研究室): “JP-Tokyo-Area-Taken-From-Airplane” Kanchi1979 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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デザイン研究室): “Honcho Street with Mount Fuji in the daytime, Fujiyoshida, 2016” DimiTalen / CC0 (cropped)
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