Research and development of measures to build sustainable resilience through investigation of disaster processes
Transformation of DRR and disaster response through social science
Disasters do not merely take lives and property; they also radically change our daily lives and society. Disaster preparedness is not only achieved by strengthening buildings and infrastructures, but also by building the capability of disaster resilience in individuals, communities and societies enhancing institutions, mechanisms, and culture.
To this end, NIED will discover the relationship of causes and effects between preparedness, response and recovery efforts and impacts scientifically through collaborations with citizens, communities, companies, and local authorities. Based on this understanding, we aim to propose effective disaster risk reduction measures, education, and policies
Development of digital twins of disaster processes
To promote digital transformation (DX) of emergency response and evidence-based policy making (EBPM), NIED will develop digital twins that will allow us to simulate the impact of disasters and effect of measures by modeling damage and loss propagation, response and recovery processes and by developing disaster resilience indices which enable to quantify the effect of measures.
Research on improving basic DRR capability building
To raise the DRR capability of individuals and communities, NIED will develop a scale to assess it through an exploratory survey on community disaster preparedness. In addition, while sophisticating the essence for facilitation method of community disaster risk reduction, we will establish methods to develop human resources to support disaster risk reduction in communities and schools, develop information products (such as YOU@RISK) that can be used in those support efforts, and evaluate their effectiveness with administrative staff, community leaders, and faculty members.
Research on resilience finance
To improve the business resilience of companies, NIED intends to develop a financial scheme to encourage their business continuity (BC) efforts. Specifically, through action research with companies on-site, we will conduct risk assessments and examine countermeasure strategy according to the scale of individual and supply chain, and we will examine a mechanism to encourage non-market strategies that are relatively inexpensive and expected to be effective in business continuity efforts through finance using capital markets.
Realization of transformative governance through emergency response DX
To realize sustainable improvement of the disaster response capabilities of municipalities, NIED will develop and implement the following three functions as a cloud service based on the consilience of knowledge on disaster management.
1. Comprehensive simulation technology for advanced decision making
2. Operation support based on the disaster management system in accordance with global standards
3. Automatic archiving of disaster response and its utilization for exercise
