The 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Reconstruction and Restoration (eBook)

Kanako Iuchi joined International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, in 2013 as an associate professor. Her areas of expertise include disaster management planning, urban and regional planning, and community development in international settings. Prior to joining IRIDeS, she worked as an Urban Specialist in the World Bank and an international development planner and researcher with bi- and multi-lateral organizations; national, regional, and local governments; and communities in more than ten countries across East and South Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe. She holds a BS from Tsukuba University, an MRP from Cornell University, and a PhD from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in urban and regional planning. Her primary research interest is on understanding a better planning tools and procedures for resettlement after disasters, and is currently exploring the theme in different settings including Japan, Indonesia, Philippines and the US. Norio Maki is professor at Kyoto University in Japan and holds various degrees in Engineering including a PhD. He is currently working at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of this institution. Before becoming a full time Professor in 2014 he worked at various key positions including Team Leader at the Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Center of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention and Senior Researcher at the Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Center, RIKEN both in Japan. Prof. Maki has been a Member of the Committee of National Land Use Planning, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation, and Tourism in Japan, and nowadays he is an active Member of the Tsunami Research Committee (MEXT, Japan) and an Emergency Management Advisor in Kyoto Prefecture. He has published a number of scientific papers and managed research projects on disaster prevention topics. Prof. Maki’s main interests are Long Term Recovery From Disaster, Multi-hazard Strategic Disaster Reduction Planning, and Information Sharing for Disaster Response.Vicente Santiago worked in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for over 23 years. Initially as Deputy Coordinator of the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (Mexico), then as Deputy Coordinator of the Regional Programme on Integrated Planning and Institutional Development for the Wider Caribbean Region (Jamaica), and finally as Water Officer at the International Environmental Technology Centre located in Japan.  He has carried out projects and activities in various countries in the Caribbean region, Middle East, Africa, Asia and North and South America, as well as in Europe collaborating with governments, institutions and NGOs.  His areas of expertise include integrated coastal zone management, integrated river and lakes management, water quality and wetlands, and lately natural hazards in coastal areas mainly earthquakes and tsunamis. He has published a number of technical reports, environmental training materials, scientific and technical papers as well as edited a number of books. He received his Bachelor degree as a Biologist at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), Master in Science degree in Marine Biology at the University College North Wales; Bangor (Wales, UK), and Ph.D. in Environmental Chemial Engineering (Applied Sciences) at Exeter University (England, UK) initiating his professional career as lecturer at the Metropolitan University of Mexico (UAM).  At present he is an Invited Researcher at the International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC) in Japan and also works as a freelance consultant.Shinji Sato graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1983. He worked as a research associate at Civil Engineering Department and received Dr. Eng. degree in 1987. He then moved to Yokohama National University and worked as an associate professor until 1994. He moved to Public Works Research Institute, Ministry of Construction and worked for the Coast Division until 1999. He then moved to the University of Tokyo and was appointed to a professor in 2000. His major is coastal engineering, especially sediment movement and beach evolution. His research topics include nearshore processes, large-scale long-term coastal evolution, infragravity motion, coastal disaster mitigation against storm surge and tsunami, and sustainability of coastal environment. He has done pioneering works on oscillatory boundary layer flow over bedforms, numerical model development of nonlinear dispersive waves, nearshore currents due to waves and winds, and sediment movement in the watershed scale. He was awarded with Excellent Paper Award of Japan Society of Civil Engineers in 1998, Coastal Engineering Journal Award in 2005 and JSCE Excellent Book Publication Award in 2014. He currently serves as a special advisor of ocean policy to the cabinet.

Part I.  Planning, Policy and GovernanceChapter 1Complexities and Difficulties Behind the Implementation of Reconstruction Plans after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)Onoda Yasuaki, Tsukuda Haruka and Suzuki SachiChapter 2The Problems of Plan-Making: Reconstruction Plans after the Great East Japan Earthquake and TsunamiFukuo AkimotoChapter 3Building Back a Better Tohoku from the March 2011 Tsunami —Contradicting EvidenceShingo NagamatsuChapter 4Creating Resilience using Spatial Planning: The Case of Miyako City over the First Five Years after the Great East Japan EarthquakeNadine MägdefrauChapter 5Lessons Learned in Disaster Debris Management of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and TsunamiTerri R NortonPart II. Societal and Community Recovery Chapter 6Revisiting Tohoku’s Five-Year Recovery: Community Rebuilding Policies, programs and implementationKanako Iuchi, Robert Olshansky and Laurie JohnsonChapter 7Enhancing Community Resilience through Capacity Development After GEJE: The Case of Sendaishi-chiiki Bousai Leaders (SBLs) in Miyagi PrefectureAiko Sakurai and Takeshi SatoChapter 8Community Design in Recovery Following the March 2011 Earthquake and TsunamiHideiki  Koizumi and Mariko TsujiChapter 9Healthy Community Resilience against DisasterShinichi Egawa, Aya Murakami and Hiroyuki SasakiPart III. Urban Planning, Housing and DevelopmentChapter 10Planning Challenges for Housing and Built-Environment Recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Collaborative Planning and Management Go beyond Government-Driven Redevelopment Projects Tamiyo KondoChapter 11Housing and Reconstruction Over Five Years after the 2011 Japan Earthquake and TsunamiYoshimitsu ShiozakiChapter 12Changes in Land Use after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Related Issues of Urban FormMichio UbauraChapter 13Housing Recovery and Displacement from Fukushima: Five Years Post-Nuclear Meltdown Elizabeth MaliPart IV. The Environment; Research, Damage and RecoveryChapter 14Restoration Measures after the 2011 Tohoku-oki Tsunami and Their Impact on Tsunami Research Catherine Chagué-Goff, Kazuhisa Goto, Daisuke Sugawara, Yuichi Nishimura and Takeshi KomaiChapter 15Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on the Seaweed (Eisenia bicyclis) Habitat at Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi, JapanTamaki Hitoshi and Muraoka DaisukeChapter 16Changes in the Coastal Ecotone along the Sanriku Coastline after the GEJE and Tsunami of March 2011Teruhisa Komatsu, Shuji Sasa, Masahiro Hamana, Shingo Sakamaoto, Genki Terauchi, Ryou Tsujimoto and Tetsuo YanagiChapter 17Reconstruction and Restoration after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami -Tohoku Ecosystem-Associated Marine Sciences Project ActivitiesAkihiro Kijima, Kazuhiro Kogure, Hiroshi Kitazato and Katsunori FujikuraChapter 18The Coastal Environment and the Reconstruction Process after GEJE—A Few NotesV. Santaigo-Fandino and Eric MasPart V.  Farming and RestorationChapter 19Impact of the 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake Tsunami on Cultivated Soil in Miyagi Prefecture, Northeastern Japan: An OverviewHitoshi KannoChapter 20The Regional Structure and Farming Resumption in a Tsunami-affected Community -The Case Study of Otomo and Hirota Districts in Rikuzentakata City—Iwate PrefectureToshihiro Hattori, Natsuki Shimizu and Akemi SaitoChapter 21Tohoku University Rapeseed Project for Restoring Tsunami-Salt-Damaged Farmland:Was the Wisdom of Agricultural Science Utilized for the Restoration?Nakai Y, Nishio T, Kitashiba H, Nanzyo M, Saito M, Ito T, Omura M and Kanayama Y.Part VI.  Coastal Engineering, Structures and HazardsChapter 22The Yamamoto Coast over Five Years: the Reconstruction of an Embankment with  Tsunami-induced EmbaymentVo Cong Hoang, Hitoshi Tanaka, Yuta Mitobe, Keiko Udo and Akira ManoChapter 23Challenges in Reconstruction and Strategies for Prevention and Mitigation of Coastal Disasters Five Years after the GEJEYoshimitsu TajimaChapter 24Formation of Breaking Bores in Fukushima Prefecture due to the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami—A Comprehensive Study Five Years afterSato Shinji and Ohkuma ShoheiChapter 25The Role of Tsunami Engineering in Building Resilient Communities and Issues to Be Improved after the GEJEFumihiko Imamura, Anawat Suppasri, Shosuke Sato and Kei YamashitaPart VII.  Coastal Modelling and Hazards PredictionChapter 26Evolution of Numerical Modeling as a Tool for Predicting Tsunami-induced Morphological Changes in Coastal Areas: A review Since the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Daisuke SugawaraChapter 27Recent Process in Probabilistic Tsunami-Hazard Analysis (PTHA) for Mega-Thrust Subduction EarthquakesNobuhito Mori, Katsuichiro Goda and Daniel Cox