The New Trend of Disaster Mitigation Education in Japan

To help the students connect the knowledge they have learned and the experience by visiting Mt. Rokko, which is located in Kobe and famous for its beautiful greens, its active faults, its steep peaks, its rapid streams which frequently caused floods in its history.

The students learn Mt. Rokko from the point of both natural environment and social environment. They especially focus on Kobe Earthquake and the Great Hanshin Flood. After this successive study of Mt. Rokko and the two disasters, the students visit the mountain area to observe the active faults, rapid streams, and so on. The students make a report after the observation.

The students can connect the natural environment (by the study of the subject "Environment and Science") with the social environment (by the study of the subject "Disasters and Human Beings").