Social Engineering Approach Toward Earthquake Hazard Mitigation in Urban Areas

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It is noted that the fragility of urban areas has accelerated and they are becoming more complex with rapid development of social systems. In order to solve such complex hazard mitigation in urban area, authors proposed a new concept of urban control based on an approach of social engineering with the integration of engineering technology and socio-economic knowledge. Firstly, looking back the past large earthquakes, specific features are studied by the damage propagation flow chart and identified important elements. Secondly, it is reviewed how to evaluate the uncertainty included in the risk assessment and the business impact from business continuity management (BCM). In respond to the need of early recovery both in a company or a region, availability of effective technical tools are studied along the time axis and several useful tools such as early warning system, damage monitoring systems, etc., are presented as a real time mitigation system. Finally, the basic concept of urban control is described for the global urban hazard mitigation, which is possible to apply for BCM of private company which is expected to play important roles to maintain the social systems in urban areas. The major concept of this paper is based on the research product obtained by the report of “Long Road” guided by Prof. Takuji Kobori and his group named SEEHM(Social Engineering for Earthquake Hazard Mitigation).

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