Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities

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My university and research group studies "Global COE for Education,
Research and Development of Strategy on Disaster Mitigation of
Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities (Global-DMUCH)" at the Research
Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan
University".
http://www.rits-dmuch.jp/en/g-coe.html

The Global-COE program is a national science project. Disaster related
programs are provided by only 2 universities and are chosen by the
Monbusho Scholars and Japan Society for Promotion of Science. One is
our Global-DMUCH and the other is Urban Disaster Mitigation, Tokyo
Institute of Technology.
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/html/research/centers/global-coe/index.html/

Our center is the only one providing international training for
disaster mitigation of urban cultural heritage covering both heritage
conservation and disaster mitigation including protection of tourists
from disasters.
http://www.rits-dmuch.jp/en/unesco.html

We had a special session at World Conference of Historical Cities
2010.
http://wchc2010-nara.jp/index.html

My laboratory mainly studies community based risk management including
risk communication and assessment.

Hidehiko KANEGAE Dr. ENG.
Professor, Faculty of Policy Science
Ritsumeikan University