Risk Communication of Natural Disasters: The Gap between Science and Disaster Prevention

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  • SEKIYA Naoya
    Center for Integrated Disaster Information Research, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo

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  • 自然災害のリスク・コミュニケーション
  • 科学と防災の間の乖離

Abstract

<p>　 Recent trends in disaster information dissemination for natural disasters are leveling, meshing and high resolution to reduce the lead time for evacuation, and weather disaster warning being increasing and diversifying. However, disaster information of risk communication does not have to be scientifically accurate, precise, and detailed.</p><p>　 It is difficult to accurately predict the occurrence of weather-related disasters or natural disaster in the first place. And even with the increase and diversification of weather information, there is no information that can be called definitive enough to lead to evacuation. It is not right to tell people the risks as they are. Even if you understand the risks accurately, you should evacuate just in case, or if you do not understand the risks accurately, you should feel the risks more than necessary or evacuate earlier.</p><p>　 It is important to make a clear distinction between the goal of disaster prevention, which is to provide information to protect human lives, and the goal of outreach, which is to deepen understanding of seismology, volcanology, and meteorology and to provide information based on academic knowledge.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390015333244082048
  • DOI
    10.24646/jnlsts.20.0_14
  • ISSN
    24337439
    13475843
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
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