What is the role of universities in disaster response, recovery, and rehabilitation? Focusing on our disaster victim identification project

Takafumi Aoki; Koichi Ito

doi:10.1109/MCOM.2014.6766081

What is the role of universities in disaster response, recovery, and rehabilitation? Focusing on our disaster victim identification project

Takafumi Aoki, Koichi Ito

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A university provides diverse knowledge and expertise that can be mobilized readily in response to community needs in the event of a disaster. Due to its comprehensive capability, a university can contribute significantly in all phases of disaster cycles: pre-disaster preparedness, disaster response, and disaster recovery. It is this comprehensive strength that makes universities such an important part of our society, even in a disaster situation. This article summarizes Tohoku University's strength displayed in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. As a case study of response-phase contributions, this article also focuses on the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) project, in which authors have been involved for nearly three years.

Original language	English
Article number	6766081
Pages (from-to)	30-37
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume	52
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2014.6766081
Publication status	Published - 2014 Mar

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Computer Science Applications
Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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