2019 Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 123-127
Four academic societies i.e. Japan Society on Water Environment (JSWE), Japan Society for Safety Engineering (JSSE), Japan Society for Disaster Information Studies (JASDIS) and Japanese Society of Insurance Science (JSIE) shared their state-of-the-arts on coping with disaster risk and non-stationary event risk at a session on SRA-Japan annual meeting in 2018. In the field of JSWE, a challenge was introduced on developing a suite of simulation models in selected Asian cities to evaluate urban flash floods, water quality of urban rivers, and health risk caused by infectious gastroenteritis spread via flood water. Most important challenges have been to reveal unknown causes of physical hazard such as explosive accident in the field of JSSE. In the field of JASDIS, a powerful mobile app for supporting tsunami evacuation drill was developed, which encourages commitment to evacuation scenario for drill participants. In the field of JSIE, a decision behavior of policyholders of fire insurance who were faced to enroll in earthquake insurance is a key and a structural fault was pointed out on a contract sheet, in which selection of earthquake insurance option was interrupted. We discussed different points of those risk coping process i.e. who copes with the risks, when to cope with and a degree of severity. We found a common approach of severity estimation model or insurance. It is important to share knowledge on risk analysis methods and its application for disaster/non-stationary risk management among professional of various field of risk.
