Co-operative Research on the Fundamental Problems in the Natural Disaster Science

考虑到鹿儿岛近期的特大暴雨灾害以及日本北部和阪神-淡路地区的多次地震灾害，通过本文的讨论，提出了城市防震系统和大气中尺度现象预报等未来研究项目的重要性。提出了两个研究项目作为优先领域科学研究补助金的可能主题。我们分别在东京和松山主办了第30届和第31届自然灾害科学研讨会，对近年来开展的研究成果进行了批判性审查，并讨论了自然灾害科学的未来行动方针。在这两年中出版了五卷《自然灾害科学杂志》，其中载有自然灾害科学援助赠款获得的几项成果。其中一卷是阪神-淡路地震灾害特刊。在第九届“大学与科学”学术研讨会上，以“区域社会中的自然灾害及其减灾”为综合题目，通过并实施了向公众宣传我们主要研究成果的计划。丰富了“SAIGAI”书目数据库。先后向国内外各地区派遣了11个偶发灾害研究小组。有关的研究结果已作为小册子出版。此外，还讨论了重组京都大学防灾研究所的方案，以加强自然灾害研究机构之间的网络。

Considering the recent severe rainstorm disaster at Kagoshima and several earthquake disasters in northern Japan and in Hanshin-Awaji district, through the discussion in this study, the importance was put to the future research projects concerning with the urban anti-seismicsystems and the prediction of the meso-scale atomospheric phenomena among others. Two research projects have been proposed as the possible themes of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas. We sponsored the 30th and 31st symposium on the natural disaster science at Tokyo and Matsuyama, respectively, and the results of the research conducted in recent several years were critically reviewed and the future course of action in the natural disaster science was discussed. Five volumes of the Journal of the Natural Disaster Science were published in those two years which contained several results obtained by the Grant-in-Aid for natural disaster science. One volume was the special issue for the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake disaster.Our plan to inform our major research fruits to the general public was adopted and implemented on the occasion of the 9th symposium of the "University and Science" under the complehensive title of "Natural Disaster and Its mitigation in the Regional Society". The bibliographic data base "SAIGAI" was enriched. Eleven research groupes for the sporadic disasters had been dispatched to the various areas abroad as well as domestic. Respective research results have been published as the booklets. The plan to reorganize the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto Unversity to strengthen the network among the institutions in the natural disaster research has been discussed.