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，我们建立了一个以图形、表格和图像为主的数据库，并附有有关近畿地区自然灾害和环境的说明文字。以HTML为代表的“大阪自然灾害与环境”数据库，按照灾害类型、学科、地区等进行了系统的分类。我们还编写了一本小册子，介绍了光盘的内容，其中有一些论文描述了防灾教育应该是什么以及它的案例研究。数据库的内容由两部分组成，其中包含以下类别：1。气象灾害与大气环境；气象灾害、气象灾害准备、大阪气象、日本四季天气特征。2 .地理图像；地貌图像，卫星图像，地震灾害，大阪地质图，和碎片…更多的灾害。该数据库不仅可以用于科学或社会学科的区域环境与灾害研究，而且可以用于“综合研究”。到目前为止，我们已经向大阪府的小学到高中教师分发了大约1000张光盘和小册子，并就其实际使用情况进行了问卷调查。根据问卷调查的中期结果，许多教师对数据库的评价重点是其地域性，但他们要求更多的环境污染的生态和化学数据，并在每个学科单元和每个校区使用数据库的有用的一揽子计划。今后，我们将在个别学校和教育中心之间建立信息网络系统。教师将利用数据库进行授课，或对某一地区进行调查，然后中心将结果反馈给该数据库。这样，网络系统将实现学校与中心之间的区域经验和数据的交换，建立一个共同的区域环境教育数据库。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