Geography, topography and travel Let's Learn Now! Basic Geography Disaster Prevention / Naoko Hasegawa / Yasuhiro Suzuki

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Geography, topography, and travel
Why does water damage occur somewhere every year in Japan? Why there are so many volcanoes? Why there are so many earthquakes? All of these can be understood by knowing what kind of place Japan is in the world and what kind of natural environment it is in each region of Japan. This book is a book that explains the mechanism of disaster occurrence from the viewpoint of natural geography with easy-to-understand sentences and rich photographs and illustrations. In the introductory chapter, "Geography" takes up the significance of learning about natural disasters. Chapters 1-5 detail the types of disasters ("Earthquakes and tsunami," "volcanoes," "water disasters," "sediment disasters," and "other meteorological disasters"). In addition, Chapter 6 focuses on topography and explains how to prepare for disasters by reading the natural activities transmitted by topography from a map. Each disaster in Chapters 1-5 is roughly organized into a sequence of 1) examples of past natural disasters, 2) mechanisms of natural disasters occurrence, and 3) policies and mental preparations to protect oneself. In the "Comprehensive Geography" newly started as a compulsory subject in high school in the 2022 academic year, the item "Natural Environment and Disaster Prevention" was added. It supplements content that cannot be covered in textbooks, and it is the most suitable content as a supplementary reading book for disaster prevention education.