Integrated Disaster Risk Management from the Perspective of Human Security Engineering

Abstract

There is an urgent need to establish integrated policies against natural disasters on a worldwide basis; however, there are various reasons, which prevent the society from taking decisive action. This chapter introduces the trend of recent natural disasters, and discusses a basic disaster risk management and governance framework from the perspective of human security engineering. It addresses the constituent elements of disaster risk, how human behaviors are related with natural disaster risks, and what types of policy measures are available for disaster risk management. In addition, it introduces the CAUSE model as a framework of disaster risk governance. In reality, there are frequent situations where it is unclear who manages disaster risk, to whom the disaster risk relates to, and what are the disaster risk problems faced by the stakeholders. Various roles of communication, which are placed in the central position of CAUSE model, are clarified and an explanation is provided on how this leads to a proper establishment of disaster risk governance among stakeholders.