Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015

Presentation information

Oral

Symbol U (Union) » Union

[U-05] Future Earth - The Integrated Research for Sustainable Earth

Mon. May 25, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM 103 (1F)

Convener:*Yukio Himiyama(Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University of Education), Teruyuki Nakajima(Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute), Makoto Taniguchi(Research Institute for Humanity and Nature), Eiji Ohtani(Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Chair:Yasuhiro Suzuki(Nagoya University)

12:20 PM - 12:45 PM

[U05-09] Land use scenarios: An analysis of urban resilience

*Yoshiki YAMAGATA1, Daisuke MURAKAMI1 (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies)

Keywords:urban resilience, land use scenario, socioeconomic scenario, hazard risks

Increase of natural hazard risks is projected in the global scale, and it is getting more and more important to adapt and mitigate natural hazard risks in multiple spatial scales, including global, national, and regional/urban scales. This study discusses adaptation and mitigation to natural hazard risks in an urban scale. Specifically, we focus on a mitigation policy, which reduces CO2 emissions by urban compaction, and an adaptation policy, which reduces flood hazard risks by moving people living in flood prone areas to safer areas. Impacts of these policies are analyzed using the landuse-transportation-energy model, which is an economic equilibrium model. The target area is the Tokyo metropolitan area. The result suggests the importance of applying both of these policies for effective reduction of natural hazard risks. Besides, influence of these policies on resulting urban form is also analyzed. Based on these results, it is discussed how to increase urban resilience.