Prof. Andres Winston Oreta delivered a lecture on "
Making Cities Resilient: The Ten Essentials and Best Practices"at Kyushu University on July 5, 2017. The lecture was attended by undergraduate and graduate students and faculty under the Research Group on Adaptation to Global Geo-disaster and Environment headed by Prof. Hemanta Hazarika.
Oreta is at Kyushu University, Ito Campus from June 29 - July 10, 2017 as a visiting researcher under the AUN/SEED-Net Short Term Research in Japan Program (SRJP) with Prof. Hazarika as host professor. His theme for the short visit is "Making Cities Resilient to Natural Disasters: Learning and Adapting
Best Practices from Japan (The Case of Kumamoto and Fukuoka)".
Research Plan:
Based on the Sendai Framework for DRR 2015-2030, UNISDR proposed a new
assessment checklist for "Making Cities Resilient.” The new ten essential checklist is presently
in the evaluation and development stage. Applying this checklist to selected
cities that have a track record of being resilient to disasters will guide the
researcher on what practices and strategies are effective to build
resilience. Many cities in Japan like
Fukuoaka and Kumamoto have strong and effective programs on disaster resilience.
Kumamoto, in particular, experienced an earthquake in 2016. Learning from the
experience of Kumamoto with respect to disaster resilience and rehabilitation
to the recent earthquake and identifying some of the best practices on disaster
resilience in cities like Kumamoto and Fukuoka will provide useful information
to the researcher on how to localize and adapt these best practices in the
cities in the Philippines.
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| With Prof. Hazarika (also an alumnus of Nagoya University) |
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| Kyushu University, Ito Campus |
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| Kyushu University, Ito Campus is located on a hilly area in Fukuoka |
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