Disaster Resilient Cities

Yoshitsugu Hayashi is Distinguished Professor & Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and Global Smart City at Chubu University, Japan, and Distinguished Guest Professor, Tsinghua University, China. He is Executive Committee member of the Club of Rome and Ex-President (2013-19) and Chair of COVID-19 Task Force of WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research Society). He is the author of more than 230 peer-reviewed papers and 40 books, including Elsevier's book Disaster Resilient Cities. His research areas include urbanization and motorization, urban smart growth/shrink management, rail transit systems, QOL based project evaluation method replacing cost-economic benefit analysis, and smart transport and cities. He was also a board member of the Engineering Academy of Japan, co-editor of Elsevier's journal Transport Policy and Associate Editor of Elsevier's Transportation Research Part D journal. Professor, Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo Professor, Disaster Risk Reduction Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University

Chapter 1. Introduction - Why Resilience is Lost? Chapter 2. Emerging Crisis in Resilience over the world 2.1 The Great East Japan Earthquake (Kato T., Sato) 2.2 Mega-flood in Bangkok, Thailand (Nakamura) 2.3 Super-typhoon Haiyan in Philippines 2.4 Disaster resilience learned from the 2007 Peru Earthquake 2.5 Losing resilience of Nomadic life due to urbanization in Mongolia (Ishii) 2.6 Losing reconstruction capacity of traditional wooden houses in Japan Chapter 3. Learning Disaster Resilience from the Great East Japan Earthquake 3.1 Understanding spatial variation of tsunami 3.2 Understanding of tsunami damages as "Lost Stock" 3.3 Measuring damage and recovery status of residents in terms of "Quality of Life" Chapter 4. Regional Grand Design for Improving Disaster Resilience 4.1 Optimum sea-wall height based on risk analysis with land use and soft measures 4.2 Earthquake damage risk evaluation by micro geo data 4.3 Consensus building for resilient society 4.4 Resilient grand design based on QOL 4.5 Paradigm change in flood protection strategies for enhancing resilience (Kachi) 4.6 Smart shrink strategy and the fiscal system