Proposal for Disaster Mitigation and Response Planning Processes at Municipality Level through Developping Planning Support System

A Case in Ichikawa City

Abstract

We introduce a planning project for the earthquake damage assessment and disaster mitigation and response planning in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture. The purpose of the project is to describe detail plans and to develop a planning support system including the damage assessment system. The features of this project are that workshop whose participants are officers of the municipality and lifeline participating companies, which is, in the previous project which done from 1992 to 1997, evaluated to be effective to promote them understanding characteristics of city from the viewpoint of disaster mitigation