A Study on the Effect of Land Use Control by Active Fault Zoning in Japan


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Japan entered an expected longstanding depopulation process in 2006. In this situation, it is important to avoid disaster social impacts due to the disaster by guiding population from vulnerable area to safer areas. This research focused on the risk of active faults among various kinds of natural hazards and studied on the effect of the land-use control along active faults in Japan. First, the meaning of land-use control by active fault zoning in the society whose population started to decrease was discussed. Japan has not adopted earthquake fault zoning act due to several reasons. However, considering the current depopulation process,

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14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
Conference Venue:
Bejing (CN)
Conference Dates:
2008-10-12 / 2008-10-17
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