PROFILE
Tetsuo Mizuta
Professional career: Engineer, Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Fellow
Present research themes: Loss estimations of earthquake and flood by economic measures, and risk analysis
■ Article
2008 "Historical City's Risk Mitigation and Making Disaster Prevention Policy with Residents’ and Tourists' Participation (in Japanese)" in Disaster Prevention Studies of Cultural Heritage: The Introduction Volume.
2008 "An Earthquake Risk Assessment from The Viewpoint of Economics by Analysing Macro Data in Kyoto" in Eastern Regional Organization for Planning & Human-Settlements.
2007 "An Estimation Study for Socio-Economic Impacts of Tourism and Related Industries in Kyoto City after a Large-scale Earthquake (in Japanese)" in Rekishi Toshi Bousai Ronbunshu [Proceedings of Urban Cultural Heritage Disaster Mitigation], Vol.1.
Abstract
World Heritage Site Ayutthaya's Flood Loss Estimation as Risk Management, and Lectures as a Feedback of Research Activities
From June 30th to September 27th of 2008, I was sent to Thammasat University, Thailand from the Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage (DMUCH) of Ritsumeikan University. In the first one month, I researched past and present flood damages and flood control plans in Thailand, and also worked as an organizer for a young researchers' workshop. In July and September, I lectured three times at Thammasat University and Chiang Mai University. My lectures' titles are "Japanese City Planning and Urban Planning" and "Japanese Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Plans and its Practices". These are based on my research activities. In August and September, I researched Ayutthaya's value by using questionnaires and the Travel Cost Method. In this research, I tried to reveal residents' and tourists' awareness and preparedness for floods at Ayutthaya.
