Database – How Useful ?

2nd Asian Science & Technology Forum8 September 2006

Hiroyuki KamedaVisiting Researcher, NIED

Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University

(revised version)

-----------------------------------------------Example:December 26, 2004 - Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster

Issues raised =a) Early warning: intergovernmental collaboration

andb) Mitigation measures: more grass-root and

integration efforts (Our concern)

* Importance of Information Sharing in Disaster Management

*EqTAP project output -Greenbelt technology: already available

West Coast of Aceh(Widjo Kongko, 2005)

Greenbelt technology development (PARI & CDRC: EqTAP project)

Laboratory test Coastal project in Sulawesi Island, Indonesia

A week after the event:*An e-mail query for information on mangrove effects on tsunami disaster

+Needs for database & information mechanism for good technologies

“Disaster Reduction Technology List”compiled by MEXT (GoJ) WG for

UN-World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Hyogo-Kobe, January 2005

A prelude to the DRH-Asia Project

+ProVention Cosortium, [www.proventionconsortium.org]

+UN-ISDR (International Strategies for Disaster Reduction, [www.unisdr.org]

+ADRC (Asian Disaster Reduction Center), [http://www.adrc.or.jp/top.php]

+WMO (World Meteorological Organization), [http://www.wmo.ch/]

+WAMIS (World AgroMeteorological Information Service), [www.wamis.org]

+NIED K-NET & KiK-Net, [www.k-net.bosai.go.jp/k-net/index_en.shtml ; http://www.kik.bosai.go.jp/kik/index_en.shtml ]

+Hotspot (World Bank-Columbia University), [http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/chrr/research/hotspots/]

+NEDIES (Natural and Environmental Disaster Information Exchange System: EC/JRC) [http://nedies.jrc.it]

+Swiss Re, [www.swissre.com]

+GOLFRE (Global Open Learning Forum for Risk Education), [http://www.golfre.org/default.asp]

+DRH-Asia (Disaster Reduction Hyperbase – Asian application: project July 2006-March 2009) [construction site: http://eqtap.edm.bosai.go.jp/DRH/]

* Disaster Management Information Platforms

+ProVention Cosortium, [www.proventionconsortium.org]* Example 1

ResourcesMainstreaming Risk Analysis (guidelines)Recovery (guidelines)Risk Transfer & Private SectorResearch & Learning (documents)ProVention Publications (documents)Partner Libraries & Resources CentresOther resources

+UN-ISDR, [www.unisdr.org]* Example 2

Data ResourcesCountry information (demographic info) Disaster statistics (global data) Library on Disaster Reduction (documents)Risk Transfer & Private SectorTerminology of disaster risk reductionLink information Other resources (institutional, activities, etc.)(PreVention Web: under construction)

+ADRC, [http://www.adrc.or.jp/top.php]* Example 3

Data ResourcesTDRM Good PracticesGlossary on Natural Disasters Technical Information Database (documents)Disaster Information of Member Countries Archives The Great Hanshin-Awaji E.Q. Disasters ADRC Accident and Disaster Database

+WMO, [http://www.wmo.ch/]* Example 4

Data ResourcesPublicationsArt galleryLibarryLinks

+NIED K-NET & KiK-Net, [www.k-net.bosai.go.jp/k-net/index_en.shtml ;

www.kik.bosai.go.jp/kik/index_en.shtml ]* Example 5

Data ResourcesDigital strong motion record download site from the K-NET and KiK-Net, a network of about 1,000 seismographs installed throughout Japan (free surface and vertical array)

+Hotspot, [http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/chrr/research/hotspots/]* Example 6

Hotspot projectGlobal distribution of highest-risk disaster hotspots by hazard type

(From: Columbia Univ. Earth Institute HP)

+NEDIES [http://nedies.jrc.it] * Example 7

Data ResourcesDisasters DB Lessons LearningPublications GlossaryLinks

+DRH-Asia, project July 2006-March 2009[construction site: http://eqtap.edm.bosai.go.jp/DRH/]* Example 8

+Disaster Reduction Hyperbase - Asian Application (DRH-Asia) : MEXT-NIED project

+ Implementation of HFA 2005-2015 adopted at UN-WCDR 2005

+ Bases for knowledge and wisdom for disaster reduction incorporating implementation oriented technologies and transferable indigenous knowledge

+ Conform with “Implementation Strategies”+ An integration of “product technology” and “processtechnology

+ Incorporating diverse cultural background+ Two-way knowledge base (not one-sided flow from developed countries to developing countries)

Database & information mechanism for good technologies that is .........

= Disster Reduction Hyperbase (DRH)

Proposed DRH Attributes• Open and Interactive access and participation• access to tested implementation technology

database, such as implementation oriented technology, process technology, transferable indigenous knowledge

• Forum for facilitating collation, testing and dissemination of mitigation models

• Link with relevant initiatives

1. EqTAP Project (April 1999-March 2004) (R&D)

2. UN-World Conference on Disaster Reduction (January 2005)

3. DRH Project - Phase I: April 2005-March 2006

4. DRH Project - Phase II: July 2006-March 2009

Hyogo Frame for Action 2005-2015 / "Portfolios" proposed by GoJ / Thematic Session 3.6 / "Pilot Project“: Japan group

Establishing international framework for DRH

Implementation Strategies in R&D

Production of DRH “Disaster Reduction Hyperbase – Asian Application”

http://www.edm.bosai.go.jp/old/m-n.html

http://eqtap.edm.bosai.go.jp/ http://eqtap.edm.bosai.go.jp/apec_eqtap/index.html

Roadway to Disaster Reduction Hyperbase

* We welcome your active participation and contributions in DRH-Asia !

* Features of Disaster Information Databases

+Data (disaster records, observed data, ........) +Information (hazard, risk,

publications, .............)+Knowledge (R&D outputs (show cases), ............)+Wisdom (implementation oriented technologies,

transferable indigenous knowledge ...........)

(proposed)Workshop on Information Platforms for Disaster Reduction (2007) to discuss:

* Identification of specific features and roles of individual platforms

* Enhancement of complementary roles and allied links

* Establishing scheme of collaboration* Implementation strategies for disaster

reduction practice: stakeholder participation

* Characteristics of Asian Disasters

* Versatility and high frequency (68% of world loss) / Dense population / North-South issues

* Bias to response rather than mitigation

population density

GDP density

earthquake

tsunami

volcano

typhoon-cyclon

floods, slope failure, drought, etc.