JP

Organization

Research Division

Practical Research and Collaboration Division
Disaster Risk Governance Research Lab
Professor (Specially Appointed)
Ph.D.(Regional Development Studies)
Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Lab (Concurrent)
Concurrent: Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Green Goals Initiative
Research Subject(s)
We conduct research on “development and disaster risk reduction,” which examines the mechanisms by which development aimed at improving quality of life can simultaneously increase disaster risk, and explores how disaster risk reduction should be addressed within broader development challenges.
Key Words
Disaster Risk Increasing Development (DRID) / Pre-disaster DRR Investment / Reversal of the Levee Effect / Sustainable Urban Development / Disaster Recovery
Website
Research Activities

Negative spiral between DRID and DRR investment
https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2026.1783482

A research example on how disaster risk–increasing development (DRID) during the high economic growth period has evolved through the dissemination of disaster risk information and regulatory guidance (e.g., reversal of the past levee effect in Tokyo)