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T. Mino, S. Kudo (eds.), Framing in Sustainability Science,
Science for Sustainable Societies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9061-6_7
Chapter 7
Time-Scale in Framing Disaster Risk
Reduction in Sustainability
Miguel Esteban, Lilian Yamamoto, Lau Jamero, and Takashi Mino
Abstract Disaster Risk Reduction is one of the most important topics in sustainability science, seeking to examine the vulnerability and resilience of human life
and society to natural hazards through the reduction and management of risks.
However, disasters are caused by many different types of natural hazard events that
take place in exposed and vulnerable areas across time spans. The size of the area
and times-scale of the impact can also differ greatly. Possible actions to improve
preparedness, countermeasures, actors or stakeholders involved, and person(s) in
charge of these measures vary depending on the type of disaster. This chapter
describes two different types of coastal issues, namely tsunamis and sea level rise,
and the types of countermeasures available to either Japanese coastal towns or small
coral islands. How these issues are perceived and dealt with will then be discussed
from the point of view of time-scales, which affect the human perception of the
problem.
Keywords Sustainability science · Risk management · Natural hazards · Tsunamis
· Sea level rise
M. Esteban (*)
Research Institute of Sustainable Future Society, Faculty of Civil
and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
L. Yamamoto
South American Network for Environmental Migrations, São Paulo, Brazil
L. Jamero
Resilience Collaboratory, Manila Observatory, Manila, Philippines
T. Mino
Graduate Program in Sustainability Science-Global Leadership Initiative,
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences,
The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
e-mail: mino@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
© The Author(s) 2020
T. Mino, S. Kudo (eds.), Framing in Sustainability Science,
Science for Sustainable Societies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9061-6_7
Chapter 7
Time-Scale in Framing Disaster Risk
Reduction in Sustainability
Miguel Esteban, Lilian Yamamoto, Lau Jamero, and Takashi Mino
Abstract Disaster Risk Reduction is one of the most important topics in sustainability science, seeking to examine the vulnerability and resilience of human life
and society to natural hazards through the reduction and management of risks.
However, disasters are caused by many different types of natural hazard events that
take place in exposed and vulnerable areas across time spans. The size of the area
and times-scale of the impact can also differ greatly. Possible actions to improve
preparedness, countermeasures, actors or stakeholders involved, and person(s) in
charge of these measures vary depending on the type of disaster. This chapter
describes two different types of coastal issues, namely tsunamis and sea level rise,
and the types of countermeasures available to either Japanese coastal towns or small
coral islands. How these issues are perceived and dealt with will then be discussed
from the point of view of time-scales, which affect the human perception of the
problem.
Keywords Sustainability science · Risk management · Natural hazards · Tsunamis
· Sea level rise
M. Esteban (*)
Research Institute of Sustainable Future Society, Faculty of Civil
and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
L. Yamamoto
South American Network for Environmental Migrations, São Paulo, Brazil
L. Jamero
Resilience Collaboratory, Manila Observatory, Manila, Philippines
T. Mino
Graduate Program in Sustainability Science-Global Leadership Initiative,
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences,
The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
e-mail: mino@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp