Business Environment of Storm and Flood Risk Assessment

Abstract

  Through hearing survey on such private enterprises as property insurance companies and consultants on construction or on business continuity planning, we estimated industrial scales and potential customers of assessment of storm and flood risks. A necessary condition for securing profitability independent of public expenses is identifiability of beneficiaries as to be charged. In both cases of subcontracts of public work and of independence of public expenses, advanced enterprises capable of down-scaling global-warming-simulation data to horizontal resolutions higher than 2km are indispensable to ecosystem. (1) For the time being, outsourced to enterprises advanced in meteorological and turbulent simulations (DS-advanced enterprises) under support of universities or public research institutes, huge computational resources are necessary to down-scaling all over Japan to set national criteria in disaster prevention, property-insurance rates, and so on, while the universities or the public research institutes do not license intellectual property exclusively to a DS-advanced enterprise. (2) Partnership contracts with confined DS-advanced enterprises are necessary to super-large-capacity data transfer through OPenDAP servers.