Community Diagnosis for Sustainable Disaster Preparedness
Community Diagnosis for Sustainable Disaster Preparedness
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可持续备灾的社区诊断
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2006
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N. Okada
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作者:
Yoko Matsuda;N. Okada
The paper presents the“community diagnosis”method which addresses the need for sustainable disaster preparedness at the community level with the assistance of disaster experts. To this end, we present the PDCA management cycle and knowledge creation model. Based on these concept models, we introduce and demonstrate community diagnosis as a method of implementing participatory disaster preparedness. Disaster preparedness is observed as a participatory community management process, where all participating agents are expected to share knowledge. We discuss the type of knowledge required and how it can be better accumulated and used. This process is analyzed by the knowledge creation model. Community diagnosis is proposed as a method for completing this knowledge creation cycle to enhance disaster preparedness. We discuss the first two phases of community diagnosis. The knowledge externalization phase is designed as a diagnostic survey, the questionnaire survey implying the metaphor that “the community’ s disaster preparedness needs to be checked.”The knowledge combination phase is designed as a prescriptive workshop which is held to find a solution (prescription) to enhance the community preparedness by face-to-face communication. We present an ongoing empirical study of community diagnosis in urban Nagoya. We also discuss the scheme of the participatory process which makes this study unique. From the tentative results of this community diagnosis, externalized local knowledge regarding“repeatability of preparedness”and“scale of a community”is discussed.