Actions of Shizuoka University for disaster mitigation

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Actions of Shizuoka University for disaster
mitigation

• Toshiaki Masuda
• Director of Center for Disaster Mitigation,
  Shizuoka University

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Key message

• Prefecture members and University members
• have supplementary functions. University members
  are responsible for (1) education of university
  students and (2) scientific researches.

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Special comment

• Shizuoka area is going to receive severe damages
  from the coming Tokai earthquake.
• The prefecture government started several plans
  to mitigate conceivable damages from the
  Earthquake more than 30 years ago.
• We, university researchers, are very lazy. We
  started to prepare against the earthquake only 3
  years ago, under the assistance of the government
  members.

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Members of the Center

• 2 researchers
• 3 office staffs
• 3 supporting technical staffs
• 13 supporting researchers in this Uni.
• 20 registered researchers in the other Uni.

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Three branches

1. Education
2. Research
3. Volunteer (under construction)

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Education
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Pyramid for classification
Category 1
Specialists (Doctors)
Sub-specialists (Masters)
Category 2
Category 3
Junior-specialists (Bachelors)
(Fuji-no-kuni Bosai fellow)
General knowledge with no research
Category 4
(Shizuoka University Bosai Meister)
Category 5
Interested, but
Category 6
No interests
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Category 6

• (non-exact definition)
• People who are not familiar with public actions
  against disasters
• They are sometimes troublesome at disastrous
  events.
• Ex. Some young guys were playing surfing on the
  day of tsunami from Chile last year.

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Category 5

• (non-exact definition)
• People who have good will to mitigate damages
  from disasters. They sometimes learn how to act
  as a member of citizen. However, their
  concentration lasts not so long. They are going
  to forget what they learn.

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Category 4

• (non-exact definition)
• People who attend a series of systematic and
  scientific lectures on disaster mitigation. They
  will be local Leaders when it happens.

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Category 3

• (non-exact definition)
• People who can create a new knowledge on disaster
  mitigation under the guidance of a man of higher
  categories. Bachelor level.

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Category 2Master course level

• Category 1
• Doctor course level

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Pyramid for classification
Category 1
Specialists (Doctor level)
Sub-specialists (Master level)
Category 2
Category 3
Junior-specialists (Bachelor level)
(Fuji-no-kuni Bosai fellow)
General knowledge with no research
Category 4
(Shizuoka University Bosai Meister)
Category 5
Interested, but
Category 6
No interests
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Three courses

• Introductory seminar for all the new students
  (from category 6 to 5) one-hour lecture
• A series of seminars for selected students
  (from category 5 to 4) 12 credits
• ltBosai Meister coursegt
• Intensive course for non-students
• (from category 4 to 3) 22 lectures and a
  special theme ltBosai Fellow coursegt

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