Associate Professor (Specially Appointed)
Ph.D. (Geography)
CHUBACHI Natsuko
Organization
Research Division
- Risk Evaluation and Disaster Mitigation Research Division
- Disaster Humanities and Social Science Division
- Disaster Medical Science Division
- Practical Research and Collaboration Division
- Endowed Research Division
- Joint Research Division
- Co-creation Center for Disaster Resilience
- Global Centre for Disaster Statistics
- Kesennuma Satellite Office
- Public Relations Office
- Administration Office
- Research Subject(s)
- I work for and study science communication in IRIDeS. I am a writer and the chief editor of IRIDeS NEWs and also a University Research Administrator (URA) in the institute.
- Key Words
- science coummunication / underatain disaster risk information / collatoration between the academic community and the media
- Research Activities
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I explore how to share the knowledge of disaster science with the public effectively. With this academic interest, I have joined a project to pass on disaster memories and knowledge through collaboration between the academic community and the media, funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
I am also a member of the IRIDeS research project "Development of a supporting package for effective countermeasure planning against the special information on the Nankai Trough earthquake." In the project I am pursuing how to convey uncertain disaster forecast information with multi-stakeholders, especially with the public.
- Selected Works
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Chubachi, N., Fukushima, Y., and Kuri, M. "Fukugan gakusyuu apuroochi wo mochiita Sendai shi ni okeru waakushoppu no kokoromi", Journal of Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science 39-1, pp. 18-22, 2020. (in Japanese)
Chubachi, N., Ono, Y., Ito, K. and Imamura, F. “Overview of the World Bosai Forum Public Cultural Event,” Journal of Disaster Research 13-7, pp. 1234-1246, 2018, doi:10.20965/jdr.2018.p1234.
Chubachi, N., Chikata, M., Ito, K. and Imamura, F., “Collaborative, science-based, public disaster communication,” Journal of Disaster Research 11-3, pp. 413-420, 2016, doi: 10.20965/jdr.2016.p0413.
Chubachi, N. "Hawaii Nikkeijin shakai no tokucho," Gaimusho Chosa Geppo, 2007 nendo No.4, pp.29-49, 2008. (in Japanese)
Chubachi, N. "Travel behavior of the urban elderly in Kyoto, Japan," Japanese Journal of Human Geography 50-2, pp. 68-83, 1998. doi: https://doi.org/10.4200/jjhg1948.50.172.
- Selected Memberships
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- Japan Association of Communication for Science an Technology (JACST)
- The Human Geographical Society of Japan (HGSJ)
- American Association of Geographers (AAG)
- Selected Awards
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- Government of Canada Award (2003-04)
- Fulbright Scholarship (1999-2001)
- Rotary Foundation Scholarship (1997)
- Others
Having studied in Japan, Canada and the U.S., I earned my Ph.D. in social science, focusing on human migration and behavior. I worked in Hawaii and also lived in Germany, Switzerland and Thailand. I was a homemaker raising children from 2009 to 2013, which became a precious opportunity to see the academic community from outside. Having lived in multiple places both in and oustide the academic world, I realized that there are such diverse ways of thinking, and that science can be a common base, providing possibilities for mutual understandings. Now in the area of disaster risk reducition, I would like to keep pursuing effective science communication.