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Cross-cutting theDisaster-RelatedSciences: Challenges of aMultidisciplinary Team inTohoku University

[O1-7-01] Cross-cutting the Disaster-Related Sciences: Challenges of a Multidisciplinary Team in Tohoku University

*Junko Okuyama¹, *Fumihiko Imamura¹, *Shuji Seto¹, *Toru Matsuzawa¹, *Toshiki Iwasaki¹, *Hiroki Takakura¹, *Yu Fukuda¹, *Kiyoshi Ito¹ (1. Core Research Cluster of Disaster Science, Tohoku University)

Keywords:Core Research Cluster of Disaster Science, cross-cutting the disaster-related sciences, collaboration of citizens and researchers, the town of Shichigahama

This study presents the research activities, results, and progress of the Core Research Cluster of Disaster Science at Tohoku University. Our cluster adopts a multidisciplinary approach to disaster studies, linking natural science, engineering, medical science, and the social sciences and humanities. The town of Shichigahama in Miyagi, on Japan’s northeastern coast, was severely inundated by the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. We will report the results of the town’s two-year disaster-related activities as well as the prospects drawn from a recent workshop in September 2019. We begin with an overview of our project followed by presentations from the disaster medicine research group and the disaster social sciences and humanities research group, which are based on the field studies in Shichigahama and consider the relation between local culture and health. The natural hazard science research group and the applied disaster risk reduction research group will discuss both past and future regional risk environment evaluation efforts and which factors caused actual damages in society in the context of the 2011 disaster. After the presentations, we intend to gather feedback from our overseas collaborative partners from the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) network, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom regarding further investigations that would enhance disaster preparedness. Such endeavors will guide cross-cutting research on climate change, natural disasters, survival, health, and culture.