Non-Profit Organization for Action-oriented Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience
(NoA-DR3)
Vision
Our vision is to build a family and communities where many people can live safely and securely by acquiring knowledge on disasters and ability for improving DR3 in daily life, aiming for reducing human, physical, and economic loss caused by disasters.
Mission
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To promote DR3 culture in families and society.
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To provide society with appropriate information on DR3 guaranteed by experts.
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o provide opportunities to citizens to encourage them to take action for DR3.
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To foster human resources with DR3 culture and high DR3 literacy.
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To serve as a forum for interaction between citizens and experts.
BOARD MEMBERS
NOA-DR3 works together with the citizens, led by the board of directors composed of "five university professors" and "three business leaders working on DR3 and industry-academia collaboration.”
CAREER
1965年 神奈川県横浜生まれ
1989年 横浜国立大学工学部建設学科卒業
1995年 横浜国立大学大学院工学研究科(博士課程後期)単位取得後退学
1995年 株式会社防災都市計画研究所研究員
1996年 東京大学生産技術研究所助手
2000年 筑波大学社会工学系講師
2005年 筑波大学大学院システム情報工学研究科助教授
2013年 東北大学災害科学国際研究所教授(現在に至る)
Chair of the Board
Osamu MURAO
(Professor, Tohoku University)
“Be an organization that plays a role to support self-help and mutual assistance in the communities.”
We researchers analyze a certain event based on various sources of data, being required to obtain pragmatic research outcomes. However, there is not always an opportunity to provide these outcomes to society. Under such circumstances, NOA-DRR aims to be a bridge between experts in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (DR3) and local communities. It is not possible to enhance the DR3 capabilities of a region overnight. Nonetheless, by making use of knowledge about DR3 which has been cultivated in Japan for many years, I would like to nurture it with the community parties into an organization that plays a fundamental role in supporting activities being practiced at the household and community levels.
Vice-chair of the Board
CAREER
1992年 日本女子大学家政学部住居学科卒業
1994年 東京都立大学大学院工学研究科(博士前期課程)修了
1999年 東京都立大学大学院工学研究科(博士後期課程)修了 博士(工学)取得
1999年 日本学術振興会特別研究員
2002年 東洋大学国際共生社会研究センター 研究助手
2002年 福井大学工学部建築建設工学科 講師
2009年 日本女子大学家政学部住居学科 講師(准教授を経て現在に至る)
Namiko MINAI
(Professor, Japan Women’s University)
“Create a society where each person lives with peace of mind by thinking positively and taking the best possible actions.”
Many people may feel that DR3 activities are something special, like looking at hazard maps and participating in emergency drills. In fact, by getting to know the city through regular walks and pondering at the various activities taking place, associating them together with intuitive knowledge from previous school subjects, a person can prepare for disasters never experienced before. It is important to remember that the culture and customs that remain in each region talk about the wisdom in how to deal with natural disasters. Even so, the exact same disaster will never happen twice and we will not be suffering from the exact same damage. However, it is possible to mitigate the damage caused by a disaster when understanding and thinking about the voices of people who have experienced similar disasters in the environment around you. It is important that each of us thinks and acts willingly to prepare for disasters. Our lives are changing rapidly, but I hope that more people will understand their region, cultivate disaster awareness, and take the best possible action for specific situations by adapting to those changes so that we can live safer and more comfortably from disasters.
Vice-chair of the Board
CAREER
1970年 大阪府生まれ
1996年 阪神淡路大震災復興工事を自営業でリフォーム会社を創業
1999年 豊橋竜巻復興工事(2ヶ月間)
2000年 東海集中豪雨復興工事(4ヶ月間)
2004年 新潟中越地震;災害ボランティア
2011-12年 東日本大震災;災害ボランティア
2012年 本気で災害から命を守る為のシェルターの開発に着手。
2016年 鬼怒川水害;災害ボランティア
2018年 3社を合併し株式会社シェルタージャパンと改名
2019-20年 西日本豪雨;災害ボランティア
2020年 シェルター開発特許取得34件
Akihiko YANO
(President, Shelter Japan Co., Ltd.)
“Encourage as many people as possible to take action.”
With our management philosophy of a "continued and united happy family," we are developing corporate activities to support comfortable and united families in daily life and to reassure them with reliable living spaces that protect a safe environment for unity in the event of disasters. Natural disasters do not occur only when we are in a safe place, and their consequences are not always within the assumed limits of expectation. As I continued to think "I want to protect as many people as possible," I came up with the keyword "education." Together with the representative expert teachers in Japan who have been conducting research in each field, with deepening my own learning, I will contribute to the improvement of DR3 capabilities from within society.