better define the geographic area hit by the disaster. We examine two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different …

government's primary tool for disaster mitigation by guiding urban development and improving the quality of housing stock in … give municipalities the power to initiate Urban Transformation projects to rehabilitate urban areas or to mitigate disaster … future. In the paper, the urban transformation related to disaster mitigation approach will be discussed in the case of …

arisen. On the other hand, the risks of natural disaster, such as damage from local flooding by heavy rain, are rapidly … hybrid sewerage systems and showed its various benefits in terms of environmental issues and disaster prevention of inland …) concept for handling environment issues and disaster prevention by fully utilizing the capacities of rainwater drainage …

disaster estimated areas. The people have also fallen victim to landslide disasters. So it has been important for a local … government to build a comprehensive evacuation program of a large natural disaster. In this program, it is substantial to give … data, a multi-agent simulation model in a hypothetical landslide disaster was developed by a multi-agent system (MAS …

such a disaster, online media has emerged as a valuable resource. In this study, we analyze the online-media usage … should be an effective means for to collecting local disaster information from users; then this information can be utilized … for disaster countermeasures. …