Abstract
This research aims to examine the validity and sustainability of promoting schoolbased
disaster risk reduction through collaboration with family, community, and other related
individuals and organizations by taking Yokohama City Kita-Tsunashima Elementary School
as an example. The school introduced the School Management Council System (known as
“Community School,” CS) and has continuously engaged multiple stakeholders outside the
school in the school management. The study collected related materials such as the transition
of the 10th year mid-term school management policy and conducted a field survey during the
joint community disaster drill at the school. As a result, the study found that CS, which is an
existing system in the Japanese education sector, a valid and sustainable framework, and that
Kita-Tsunashima’s superb cooperation among schools, families, and communities by exercising
their strengths may be a role model for other schools and communities for the disaster risk
reduction. It demonstrated the accumulation of practices applying the CS framework with
disaster activities at its priority brings about sustainable neighborhood planning and disasterrelated
capacity development for the members of the community as by-products of the CSbased
practices.
