How Should Local Government Integrate the Information of Affected People to Support Their Life Recovery Continuously and Effectively? -A Case Study at Kashiwazaki City, Niigata, Japan-

Abstract eng:
Once disaster occurs, local government has responsibility to provide various services to the affected people. But it is very difficult to identify who are really affected because there is no master database about them. In addition, each department of local government performs their activities simultaneously and independently due to bureaucratic sectionalism. Accordingly, services provided by local government tend to be fragmented and uncoordinated to the affected people to support their life recovery process continuously. To provide a more coherent and timely services to the affected peoples, we develop a standardized operation procedure to construct a new database of the affected people with geo-reference as well as an information management system for a more integrated assistance for the life recovery of the affected people. We applied this standardized operation procedure for an integrated assistance for life recovery of the disaster victims to Kashiwazaki city in Niigata prefecture, Japan in her recovery efforts from the 2007 Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake which occurred on July 16 in 2007. In this case study, a cooperative framework was established with city government to help her response by providing technical assistance for the construction of the geo-referential database of the affected people in this city as well as its information integration system that enabled Kashiwazaki city to provide all the necessary services for the affected people’s life recovery in an integrated fashion.

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