Japan

This G20 Climate Risk Atlas factsheets sheds light on the risks faced by Japan. The G20 Climate Risk Atlas is the contribution of the CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change to ensure attentive and well-informed climate action

This study explores agent-based tsunami evacuation simulations in Takanabe town, Miyazaki Prefecture to compare the evacuation ratio when agents are evacuated to the nearest inland facility regardless of direction relative to the coastline.

This solutions paper answers the question: what should the G7 do to better avert and respond to crises in order to reduce both human suffering and the overall cost of crisis response? The paper identifies three solutions that the G7 should initiate.

The aim of this study is to investigate different institutional frameworks that deals with the management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (hereafter WHS) under the threats of natural and technological hazards in other countries in comparison with Turkey.

This paper constructs an evacuation decision-making model that takes cognitive dissonance into consideration. The purpose of this construction is to clarify the psychological mechanism for the evacuation behavior of residents during an emergency

This study compares earthquake risk and early warning effectiveness is perceived by residents in Sendai, Japan and Seattle-King County, Washington State, USA, as well as their willingness to pay for an improved or newly adopted EEW system.

This report highlights the collaborative action already happening between cities, states, regions, business, and national government, using data reported by over 1000 cities, states and regions.

To understand the connections and the cascading impacts of Tsunamis, this article reviews several recent damaging tsunami events in Japan and Indonesia, and applies a cascading magnitude scale to each tsunami event to determine and categorize causes, effects, and escalation points.