Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

International Workshop on Earthquake Risk Perception

A videoconference workshop on “Earthquake Risk Perception” was held March 5, 2008 to share the results of a survey conducted in 2007/2008 by the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) on the risk perception of residents, government officials, building contractors and masons in Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Turkey, Fiji, the Philippines, India and Japan. The survey is part of a joint research project on “Dissemination of technologies for safer housing” under the “Collaborative Research and Development Project for Disaster Mitigation on Network of Research Institutes in Earthquake Prone Areas in Asia”. Future research activities were also discussed.

The Collaborative Project is coordinated by the Building Research Institute (BRI), with financial support of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

Connected via GDLN videoconference for this session were participating organizations in Japan, Fiji, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Turkey.

Participating organizations in this Project are as follows:
- Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia
- National Society for Earthquake Technology-Neal (NSET), Nepal
- Preston University, Pakistan
- Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey
- Centre for Appropriate Technology & Development (CATD), Fiji
- Philippine Geographical Society (PGS), Philippines
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India
- Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), Japan
- Mie University, Japan
- Tsukuba University, Japan
- World Bank