Values and Applications of Earthquake and Tsunami Stone Monuments in Tokushima

Iwaka, Kazuhisa; Kozuki, Yasunori; Yamanaka, Ryoichi; Tanabe, Shin Ichi; Murakami, Hitoshi

doi:10.2208/kaigan.67.i_1261

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“…The historical data, therefore, prove to be of great help to better understand the evolution of a particular territory and therefore for a mitigation of geological, geomorphological and hydrological risk. Many inhabited centres all over the world, repeatedly involved in endogenous and exogenous processes in the past, have continued to expand, often in the same areas where there have been serious events that have caused damage and victims, without taking due account of previous teachings [51]. This occurred mainly because of the loss of "historical memory", which in turn favoured a lack of adequate territorial planning for decades; therefore, urban expansion took place, which has often resulted in an inevitable proliferation of risk.…”

Section: Historical Research As a Tool To Mitigate And Reduce Geologi...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical Data for Natural Hazard Risk Mitigation and Land Use Planning

Luino,

Barriendos,

Gizzi

et al. 2023

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This paper demonstrates how historical research is a valuable tool for identifying past geological, geomorphological and climatic hazards and therefore critical for mitigating and reducing future risk. The authors describe the potential of a scientific field that straddles that of the geologist, geographer, historian and archivist. Historical records include a range of materials and sources of information, which can be very diverse; from written documents to cartographies, and from drawings to marble tombstones. They are all useful and convey important data, on the date of the event, the size of the phenomena, sometimes on ground effects, damage or magnitude. The authors discuss how to conduct historical research by providing a list of locations and how important historical documents can be found. Works that mention geological phenomena are listed, starting with the first occasional descriptions by individuals in letters, up to very specific publications in individual fields of interest. With this introduction, the editors of the Special Issue wish to draw attention to the importance of historical documentation, which is too often ignored or considered of low priority by the scientific community, but can contain key information on events, their impacts and social and cultural adaptations.

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Section: Historical Research As a Tool To Mitigate And Reduce Geologi...mentioning

confidence: 99%