Creation of a Geografical Data Base on Our Living Areal Environment and Prevention of Disasters and Construction of a Regional Information Center of Education

为了促进环境和防灾教育，我们建立了一个数据库，主要由数字、表格和图像组成，并附有关于近畿地区自然灾害和环境的说明文字。数据库名为“大坂的自然灾害与环境”，以CD-ROM上的HTML表示，按灾害类型、学科或地区进行了系统分类。我们还编写了介绍光盘内容的小册子，其中包括介绍防灾教育的论文和案例分析。数据库的内容由两部分组成，包括以下几个类别：一、气象灾害与大气环境;气象灾害，气象灾害准备，大坂气象，二、地理图像、地貌图像、卫星图像、地震灾害、大坂地质图、泥石流灾害等 ...更多信息 灾难。该数据库不仅可用于科学或社会学科的环境和灾害的区域研究，还可用于“综合研究”。到目前为止，我们已向大坂府的小学到高中教师分发了约1000张光盘和小册子，并就其实际使用情况进行了问卷调查。根据问卷调查的初步结果，许多教师对数据库的评价特别是其区域性，但他们要求更多的生态学和化学的环境污染的数据和有用的软件包程序使用的数据库在每个学科单元和每个学区。今后，我们将在各个学校和我们的教育中心之间建立信息网络系统。教师利用该数据库进行授课或对某一地区进行调查，中心将结果反馈给中心，从而实现学校与中心之间的经验和数据交换，建立一个区域环境教育的通用数据库。少

In order to promote the education for environment and prevention of disasters, we built a data base composed mainly of figures, tables, and images with explanatory texts concerning natural disasters and environment in the Kinki area. The data base titled "Natural Disasters and Environment of Osaka", represented by HTML on a CD-ROM, was systematically classified by types of disasters, branches of learning, or areas. We wrote also a booklet introducing the contents of the CD-ROM with some papers described what education for prevention of disasters should be and its case studies.The contents of the data base are composed of two parts containing the following categories :I.Meteorological disasters and atmospheric environment ; meteorological disasters, provision for meteorological disasters, meteorology of Osaka, and features of the weather at four seasons in Japan.II.Geographical images ; geomorphologic images, satellite images, earthquake disasters, geological map of Osaka, and debris fl … More ow disasters. This data base can be utilized for regional studies of environment and disasters not only in the subject of science or society but also in 'the comprehensive studies'.Till now we have distributed about one thousand of the CD-ROM and booklet to teachers of primary to senior high schools of Osaka prefecture, and set out a questionnaire on how their practical use was. According to the interim findings of the questionnaire, many teachers appraised the data base particularly on its regionalism, but they requested more data of ecology and chemistry of environmental pollution and useful package programs using the data base in every subject unit and in each school area. Hereafter we will construct information network system among individual schools and our education center. The teachers will give lessons, or carry on an investigation of an area using the data base, and then we of the center feedback their results to it. Thus, the network system will realize interchange of areal experience and data among the schools and the center to built up a common data base of regional environmental education. Less