Abstract
Disaster assessment, which specifies the contents and the scale of a disaster restoration works, is one of the most important work in disaster restoration project. This paper examines the problems related to the assessment of the agricultural infrastructure and facility encountered by the local governments in the Mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake in 2004. Comparing to the enormous destruction the earthquake brought about, the period of assessment activities was fairy limited and the work load was concentrated at this time. In order to ease the work load concentration, simplified assessment system, such as “Model System” and “Typical Section System” were introduced. In spite of the fact that these efforts help expedite the works, some issues remained. Moreover, although the farmers had requested the improvement restoration work for their damaged farmland, an expedience was emerged that the customary systems could not allow enough this improvement. This paper clarifies the advantages of the improved systems introduced for the disaster assessment, and to propose measures to address the newly imaged issues.
