Proposal for Planned Disaster Recovery of Agricultural and Rural Areas according to Disaster Level

• Published in: Nōgyō Nōson Kōgakkai ronbunshū Vol. 87; no. 1; pp. I_45 - I_50
• Main Authors: ARITA, Hiroyuki, HASHIMOTO, Shizuka, UCHIKAWA, Yoshiyuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Tokyo The Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering 2019; Japan Science and Technology Agency
• Subjects: Agricultural development; Agriculture and rural development field; Disaster level; Disaster management; Disaster recovery; Disaster recovery plan; Disaster relief; Disaster restoration; Disasters; Earthquake; Earthquake damage; Earthquakes; Emergency preparedness; Large-scale disaster; Levels; Policies; Recovery; Restoration; Rural areas; Rural development; Seismic activity
• ISSN: 1882-2789; 1884-7242
• DOI: 10.11408/jsidre.87.I_45

Through examination of measures taken in the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Niigata Prefecture Chuetsu Earthquake, we discussed the necessity of planned systematic disaster recovery according to the disaster level, and proposed characteristics and composition that the plan should provide. In the agricultural rural development field, planning for disaster recovery is not currently made, but planning for large-scale disasters leads to speeding up and improving efficiency of restoration and reduction of work burden. The disaster recovery plan has the effect of (1) clarifying the recovery policy, (2) reducing the task right after the disaster, and (3) ensuring uniformity of restoration correspondence. Depending on the form of the damage, the afflicted area can be divided into individual damage zone, multi-unit damaged zone, areal damaged zone, and disaster levels are different depending on the combination. In this paper, we categorized disaster levels into three categories, and showed a systematic disaster recovery method for each level.