All-Hazards Approach: Towards Resilience Building

Takako Izumi has been an associate professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan, since 2013. She also serves as a program coordinator of the Multi-Hazards Program under the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), which comprises 60 universities and academic institutes in the Pacific Rim. She holds a Ph.D. in global environmental study from Kyoto University, Japan. Her research interests include international and regional frameworks and strategies for disaster risk reduction, international humanitarian assistance, and disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives at local and community levels. Since May 2015, she has been a member of the Asia-Pacific Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (AP-STAG) to support the efforts of governments and stakeholders in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for DRR.
Miwa Abe became an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, TokaiUniversity, Japan, in 2022. She received her Ph.D. in global environmental study from Kyoto University, Japan. Her research interests include disaster recovery policy, social-environmental adaptation by resettlement after natural disasters at the local level, and crisis management by national and local administration. Previously, she had 7 year of experience as a firefighter in Kitakyushu City, Japan. After she joined academia, she worked for sustainable community development and community environmental management in Indonesia and other Asian countries under the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Kitakyushu Urban Center as a researcher.
Kumiko Fujita is a researcher at the International Consortium on Landslides. She has more than 20 years of experience in education, research, and development for natural hazard-induced disaster risk reduction, with a Ph.D. in global environmental studies from Kyoto University, Japan. Her expertise is in applying Japanese technologies of mitigating and preventing natural hazard-induced disasters, such as landslides, debris flow, erosion, and flooding, to social implementation in disaster areas in Asian countries. She has coordinated training courses for foreign engineers provided by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). She also has coordinated science programs offered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Indonesia.
Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Japan. He is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan and the chairperson of the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) Asia and the Church World Service (CWS) Japan, two Japanese NGOs. He is also a co-founder of a Delhi (India)-based social entrepreneur start-up, the Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA). Earlier, he was theexecutive director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and was a professor in Kyoto University. His expertise includes disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He is also the coordinating lead author (CLA) for the Asia chapter's 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has published 58 books and over 400 academic papers and book chapters.

泉高子（Takako Izumi）自2013年以來擔任日本東北大學災害科學國際研究所（IRIDeS）的副教授。她同時擔任太平洋邊緣大學協會（APRU）下的多重災害計畫的計畫協調員，該協會包括60所位於太平洋邊緣的大学和學術機構。她擁有日本京都大學的全球環境研究博士學位。她的研究興趣包括災害風險減少的國際和區域框架及策略、國際人道援助，以及地方和社區層面的災害風險減少（DRR）倡議。自2015年5月以來，她成為亞太科學技術諮詢小組（AP-STAG）的成員，以支持各國政府和利益相關者在實施仙台災害風險減少框架方面的努力。

阿部美和（Miwa Abe）於2022年成為日本東海大學人文與科學學院的副教授。她獲得了日本京都大學的全球環境研究博士學位。她的研究興趣包括災後恢復政策、自然災害後的社會環境適應及安置，以及國家和地方行政的危機管理。她曾在日本北九州市擔任消防員七年。進入學術界後，她在全球環境策略研究所（IGES）北九州城市中心擔任研究員，專注於印尼及其他亞洲國家的可持續社區發展和社區環境管理。

藤田久美子（Kumiko Fujita）是國際滑坡聯盟的研究員。她在自然災害引發的災害風險減少方面擁有超過20年的教育、研究和發展經驗，並擁有日本京都大學的全球環境研究博士學位。她的專長在於將日本的自然災害減緩和預防技術（如滑坡、泥石流、侵蝕和洪水）應用於亞洲國家的災區社會實施。她曾協調由日本國際協力機構（JICA）提供的外國工程師培訓課程，並協調聯合國教科文組織（UNESCO）在印尼提供的科學計畫。

拉吉布·肖（Rajib Shaw）是日本慶應義塾大學媒體與治理研究所的教授。他同時是日本全球環境策略研究所（IGES）的高級研究員，以及可持續環境與生態發展協會（SEEDS）亞洲和世界教會服務（CWS）日本的主席，這兩個都是日本的非政府組織。他也是一家位於印度德里的社會企業創業公司——韌性創新知識學院（RIKA）的共同創辦人。此前，他曾擔任災害風險綜合研究（IRDR）的執行董事，並在京都大學任教。他的專業領域包括災害治理、基於社區的災害風險管理、氣候變遷適應、城市風險管理以及災害與環境教育。他也是政府間氣候變化專門委員會（IPCC）第六次評估報告亞洲章的協調主筆（CLA）。他已出版58本書籍和超過400篇學術論文及書籍章節。