Research for the Realization of Safe and Secure Urban Environment

Urban population is increasing around the world, both in developing and developed countries. As a result, the construction of a safe and secure urban environment and its management has become an important issue around the world today. There are many factors that can pose a threat to urban safety and security: natural disasters such as earthquake, tsunami, fire and super-typhoon and also environmental factors that can affect the lives of urban dwellers. The influence and the mechanism of how such events occur have become more complicated and diversified due to enhanced functionality and complexity of an urban social structure. Hence, it has become difficult to resolve these issues solely by independent research in directly related fields. Therefore, this project aims to integrate advanced technologies from various fields and promote research activities to establish social infrastructure for realizing a safe and secure living environment.

- Khin Than Yu, Vice-president, Professor, Yangon Technological University (YTU)

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- Carlos Arturo Linan PANTING, Kohei NAGAI, Eiji IWASAKI, Thein NU: Verification of Structural Performance of a Main Tower Inclined Suspension Bridge by Simple Monitoring and FE Analysis, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.12, No.3, pp.406-414, 2017.
- Kawasaki, A., Ichihara, N., Ochii, Y., Acierto, R.A., Kodaka, A., Win, W.Z. Disaster response and river infrastructure management during the 2015 Myanmar floods: a case in the Bago River Basin. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017, 24, 151-159.