Subject Group UEE-1: Urban Engineering and Planning
UEE1202 Urban Disaster Mitigation
Winter semester
Description and rationale: This course outlines urban disaster mitigation planning based on recent studies and
experiences in disasters. Main discussions are focused on earthquake disaster and fire. As for the earthquake
disasters, evaluation methodologies for seismic hazard and risk in urban area are introduced and disaster mitigation
planning method are discussed. As for the fire disasters urban and forest fires are studied based on fundamental
combustion mechanism.
Keywords: urban disaster mitigation planning, seismic hazard evaluation, seismic risk evaluation, seismic zonation,
urban fire protection, forest fire
Pre-requisite: none
Expected students: master and doctoral
Instructors: Prof Hiroshi KAGAMI, Dr Shigeyuki OKADA and Dr Hiroshi HAYASAKA
Course outline:
(1) Introduction
Outlines of natural disasters in the world
(2) Seismic microzonation
Evaluation of seismic hazard and risk and their zonation
(3) Seismic disaster mitigation planning
Vulnerability analysis and its application for aseismic urban construction
(4) Urban fire protection
Combustion fundamentals of fire, pool fire, building fire
(5) Worldwide forest fire
Forest fire, global warming and forest Fire
Grading: based on results of report given during the course.
Textbooks and references: handout is distributed and references are indicated in the handout.
04/2000
2nd revision: 04/2003