This study examines how flood risk perception and home ownership affect residents’ preparedness for floods, focusing specifically on the case of the Tokai flood disaster in Nagoya City, one of Japan’s biggest metropolises, in 2000. The greatest rainfall ever recorded in Nagoya City (566.5...

A framework for analyzing the effect of flooding on land prices is proposed based on a case study of the Tokai flood in September 2000. The flood effect was examined by cross-sectional and panel analyses, panel data comprising land price and its attributes. Interesting findings were that land...

In conventional flood damage reduction studies, flood damage is usually estimated with a damage function according to the depth of inundation. However, this method may not reflect the conditions of each family residing in the floodplain because it ignores not only the distribution of flood...

In this paper we develop a new form of economic - environmental input - output model to analyze the complicated interactions among economic sectors and environmental sectors. This model deals with both traditional economic sectors and the pollution elimination sector in terms of volume and...

Recent reform of environmental risk policy in Japan is discussed focusing on hazardous chemicals management. The background and reasons for evolution of a risk-based approach to hazardous chemicals management in Japan is discussed in a policy analytical framework.