KICK-OFF08.08.2018

10:00Seminarraum Erzherzog Johann Platz 1; 3rd floor

TISS LVA-Nr: 260.522in Cooperation with Keio University September 16th untill 20th 2018 in JapanNovember 25th till 29th 2018 in Tyrol

Costs: estimated 1.000€ (local hospitality scholarships by Keio University can reduce costs)

Registration: Letter of intent and motivation to partici-pate: Email until August 6th, 2018

Disaster risk reDuction anD climate change aDaptation planning: CompARINg JApAN/KoChI/ToKAShImIzU AREA ANd AUSTRIA/TyRoL/ImST-LANdECK AREA

contact:dipl.-Ing. dr meinhard Breilingmeinhard.breiling@tuwien.ac.at

Disaster risk reDuction anD climate change aDaptation planning: CompARINg JApAN/KoChI/ToKAShImIzU AREA ANd AUSTRIA/TyRoL/ImST-LANdECK AREA September 16th untill 20th 2018 in JapanNovember 25th untill 29th 2018 in Tyrol

Based on the cooperation of TU Wien with KEIo University in Japan (https://www.keio.ac.jp) TU Wien can offer a course for stu-dents on combined disaster risk preparedness and climate change adaptation planning together with Japanese professors. Along with the three international documents promoted by United Nations agencies, namely the „Sendai Framework for Action“ (UNISdR

2015), the „paris Agreement“ (UNFCCC 2015) and the „2030 Sustainable development goals“ (UN 2015), global, regional and local development aspects should turn to the better. during this master course we are going to analyze in how far this vision can be reached on the three levels by comparing locations in Japan and Austria.

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disaster resilience, climate change adaptation and a higher de-gree of sustainability, can be achieved with combined planning and measures. By combining separate plans or legal frameworks from disaster resilience, climate change adaptation and sustainable de-velopment, it is possible to establish national frameworks that are more than just the sum of all three separate approaches. This in turn will provide a basis for local actions and measures to counter unwanted development. The aim is to decrease vulnerabilities and to increase resilience to all three challenges simultaneously. Vul-nerabilities vary due to environmental properties, risk exposure, landscape features, population pressures, educational background of concerned people and more. Resilience is the ability to cope with threats and relates to the endogenous power of people from within the region. This widely depends on their wealth or dispo-sable income and their power to organize their relief from within the region. The target in Japan is Kochi prefecture, the most western prefec-ture of Shikoku Island, and Tosashimizu municipality a half island where a major earthquake is expected within the next 30 years (with 80% probability in model calculations). This will lead to a Ts-unami wave with an anticipated 25m height or about three times the height of the Fukushima tsunami following the earthquake in 2011. The prognosis alone had disastrous consequences on the province in particular the real estate market and the willingness to invest into new projects. on the other side new groups migra-te to Kochi as financially weak persons have the chance to buy property there and start tourist pensions, art studios or agricul-tural activities at the expense of a permanent and increased thre-at of a major disaster. TU Wien participants are going to analyze this situation in mixed teams with students from KEIo university.

What kind of emergency plans are in place and how to find a balance between acceptable and unacceptable risks. While earth-quakes and tsunamis are not climate related, other risks relate to extreme weather events - floods, droughts, hail, freezing - are climate dependent and expected to increase over time. In July 2018, Western Japan was seriously affected by flooding (Reuters 2018) and some 200 people were killed. In particular the climate related disasters cause problems as they are expected to double in the coming decades.The target in Austria is Tyrol province and the districts of Imst and Landeck. The village galltür in Landeck district experienced the largest avalanche catastrophe in recent Austrian history with 60 fatalities in 1999. The two districts widely live on tourism with two distinct seasons of summer and winter tourism. Alpine ris-ks - torrents, flash-floods, hang gliding, falling rocks, thunders and lightning - are serious risks that for the time being widely can be abated. however, most of this risks are climate dependent and will strongly increase during the next decades. Tyrol province is most dependent on winter tourism and became a global leader in this economic activity. huge investments are undertaken to adapt to climate change in form of snow making and to secure the provin-cial income. The current level of warming had not yet a negative impact as the ski resorts are situated very high and circumstan-ces are much better than in lower laying ski resorts. When other tourist resorts experience limitations the higher up resorts can operate as usual. however, along climate change this situation will worsen and incomes can decrease will requirements for safety will increase.

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Schedule:FIRST dRAFT

2018 2019Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan

Motivation to

Participate

Kick-off and

InformationDay Introductury

Lectures inVienna

Study Trip to

Tosashimizu

and KEIO

University

Report StudyTrip

Tosashimizu

Report DRRand CA

Planning in

Japan andAustria

Selection of

Austrian site

to apply DRRand CA

Planning

Local

Arrangements

Preliminary

Report: DRR

and CA in

selected site

Study Trip toTyrol

Report Study

Trip Tyrol

Final Report

on DRR andCA

Feed BackPeriod

Final

Presentation

Timetable DRR and CA Planning WS 2018/19

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Task Assigned To Start End Dur %

Project 17/7/18 23/1/19 137

1 Motivation to Participate 17/7/18 7/8/18 16

2 Kick-off and Information Day 8/8/18 8/8/18 1

3 Introductury Lectures inVienna 7/9/18 8/9/18 1

4 Study Trip to Tosashimizu andKEIO University 15/9/18 28/9/18 10

5 Report Study TripTosashimizu 29/9/18 16/10/18 12

6 Report DRR and CA Planningin Japan and Austria

17/10/18 1/11/18 12

7 Selection of Austrian site toapply DRR and CA Planning 27/10/18 3/11/18 5

8 Local Arrangements 4/11/18 13/11/18 7

9 Preliminary Report: DRR andCA in selected site 14/11/18 22/11/18 7

10 Study Trip to Tyrol 25/11/18 29/11/18 4

11 Report Study Trip Tyrol 30/11/18 13/12/18 10

12 Final Report on DRR and CA 14/12/18 7/1/19 17

13 Feed Back Period 8/1/19 21/1/19 10

14 Final Presentation 22/1/19 23/1/19 2

2018 2019

Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan

Overview of TasksSchedule:FIRST dRAFT

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contact tu: dI dr. meinhard Breiling department for Urban design and Landscape Architecture division for Landscape planning Technical University Vienna Erzherzog Johann platz 1; A-1040 Wien Tel. +43-1-58801-26114/ Fax: +43-1-58801-26199 e-mail: meinhard.breiling@tuwien.ac.at http://landscape.tuwien.ac.at/ and www.breiling.org

references:

unFccc (2015). The Paris Agreement. https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/paris_agreement.pdf

unisDr (2015). The Sendai Framework for disaster Risk Reduction. Source: https://www.unisdr.org/we/coordinate/sendai-framework

un (2015). Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld

reuters (2018). Report on flooding in Okayama prefecture. http://www.reuters.tv/v/h7n/2018/07/16/official-delays-magnified-deaths-in-japan-s-floods

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