7. View on Education for Disaster and Recovery: Example of R.C.E. Greater Sendai

This chapter aims to reveal the issues surrounding Education for Risk Reduction and Education for Recovery conducted in RCE Greater Sendai region. RCE Greater Sendai is a regional network of organisations that promotes ESD and was recognised as one of the first RCE in 2005 by United Nations University. RCE Greater Sendai currently links four cities (Sendai, Kesennuma, Osaki and Shiroishi/Shichigashuku), their local government, universities, other educational institutions, local industries and citizens and NGOs. The Great East Earthquake that his Eastern Japan in March 2011 affected Sendai city and Kesennuma city in particular among RCE Greater Sendai. The chapter hence focuses on these two regions and analyses on the issues of Education for Risk Reduction and the contents of Education for Recovery from this point forward. For the issues of Education for Risk Reduction in Sendai city three points are raised in this chapter; Tsunami on coastal region, land slide in inland suburbs caused by post-war residential development and “stranded commuters”. For the contents of Education for Recovery, recovery of coastal forest and homestead woodland are suggested. Examples of Kesennuma city is limited to the mechanism of industry recovery as part of the contents of Education for Recovery, since numerous case studies conducted in Kesennuma city have already been explored in other chapters of the book.