ICHARM covered on BBC

The BBC covered ICHARM research and held interviews with several researchers in their article "Can a Zen-like approach help countries with floods?"

Interviewees include Kazuhiko Fukami from the NILIM across the street, and from ICHARM Minoru Kamoto and my main supervisor and director, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, who is quoted to say: "The disaster impact is increasing so much, this has nothing to do with climate change, it is a change of society".
As my own thesis points out, it is the increase of populations in areas exposed to hazards, in combination with an increase of vulnerable population percentages that lead to the increase of disaster impacts. This is happening regardless of climate change induced increases in intensity and frequency of hazards. Governments have to decide the economic tipping point and value of lives by either favoring safer locations and building codes over continuous investments and uncontrolled urbanization of areas exposed to hazards.