Researcher's Profile

  • Project Lecturer
  • Kensuke OTSUYAMA
  • Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction
E-mail
otsuyamacity.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Biography

March 2005 Bachelor of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
April 2005 Ichijo Co., Ltd. (Ichijo Komuten)
March 2016 Master, Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
July 2018 Visiting Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Fulbright Scholarship)
March 2020 PhD, School of Engineering, Kyoto University
April 2020 Project Research Associate, RCAST, The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
April 2023 Project Lecturer, RCAST, UTokyo

Research Interests

Research Summary
Based on the interrelationship between the individual (Agent) and the social structure (Structure), I am interested in survival strategies including residential mobility, livelihood and assets during the disaster recovery phase. In addition to Japan, I am also looking at cases in ASEAN countries and North America, where disasters frequently occur, and aim to develop conceptual, institutional, and methodological theories of pre-disaster recovery planning that comprehensively captures recovery and the natural environment.

A specific area of interest
Climate change adaptation, including retreat and re-naturalizing, and resettlement options

In the modern age of the Anthropocene, there is a need to redefine the distance between nature and humans. Vulnerable populations are forced to leave the lands that were once habitable. In terms of post-disaster residential mobility, the four typologies are identified (Mobility; Immobility; Trapped Populations and force-displacement. I am unraveling such residential mobilities for each of these attributes, and aims to construct a planning theory for land use, disaster prevention, and recovery and reconstruction that takes into account climate change adaptation.

Award

  • June 2021 Award for the Doctoral Thesis, The City Planning Institute of Japan
  • March 2022 Best Presentation Award, 24th Conference at the Japan Society for Disaster Information Studies

Keywords

Residential Mobility, Urban Planning, Disaster Recovery, Retreat & Adaptation

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