[O2-8]
Transdisciplinary Approach(TDA) for Building Societal Resilience to Disasters -Efforts towards Achieving the Goals of Sendai Framework -

[O2-8-01] Transdisciplinary Approach (TDA) for Building Societal Resilience to Disasters - Efforts towards Achieving the Goals of Sendai Framework -

*Mikio Ishiwatari¹, *Romeo S. Momo², *Kenichi Tsukahara³, *Senro Kuraoka⁴, *Youb Raj Paudyal⁵, *Khamarrul Azahari Razak⁶, *Takako Izumi⁷ (1. the University of Tokyo / Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), 2. Construction Workers Solidarity, the Philippines, 3. Kyushu University, Japan, 4. Nippon Koei Co., Ltd., Japan, 5. National Reconstruction Authority, Nepal, 6. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia, 7. International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan)

キーワード：Transdisciplinary approach , Scientific knowledge-based decision-making, Resilience, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Resilience building against damaging effects of natural hazards is the indispensable step towards sustainable development in any nation. It is obvious that in contemporary society resilience building needs the best available scientific knowledge as the basis of decision-making. Yet regardless of continuous accumulation of scientific knowledge on hazards and vulnerability, it has not been well put to practice in real societal decision-making in disaster management.

While we note that important causative factors to disasters are related to the population growth with urbanization and economic development, we believe that the societal policy and decision-making process in disaster management is the decisive factor to be improved to solve the increasingly serious disaster issues. Society should take a new approach that makes a holistic and transformative approach possible. That is a transdisciplinary approach (TDA) where scientists of all disciplines and stakeholders of all sectors work together for a common objective.

Based on the background, the 21st Technical Committee (TC21) of the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council(ACECC) was established in 2016 to encourage the ACECC members to further develop its capacity to enhance scientific knowledge-based decision-making through TDA. Since its establishment, TC21 has conducted symposiums, special sessions and technical surveys in the Philippines, Nepal, Vietnam, and Japan to deepen and share the understandings on TDA.
This session presents the actual cases and key points of DRR as well as the past and current activities of TC21, where emphasis will be placed on transdisciplinary approach; the institutional scheme to establish efficient processes of scientific knowledge-based decision-making to implement DRR. Takeaway of the session will be the remarks that are reached through discussing the factors and mechanisms of actual DRR cases in light of the Sendai Framework.