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During the past ten years GIS in China has been made a great achievement under the powerful support of central government. There are two key laboratories for GIS, RS and GPS researches: LREIS at the Institute of Geography, the Chinese Academy of Science and LIESMARS at Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping. China GIS standards have been studied and some of them are formally in use. National Resources and Land Databases at 1/4, 000, 000 or 1/1, 000, 000 have been developed. GISs have also been successfully applied for damage predictions and recover planning making from flood disasters, environmental change analyses, ecological planning of river delta areas or basins as well as global environmental researches. Fundamental researches on theories and technology are widely carried out such as on vectorizing of scanning data automatically, object-oriented data models, integration of GIS with RS and so on.

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. All rights reserved. This book consists of two parts. The first part describes the context in which the Prefectures of Minamisoma and Kesennuma need to operate and what the meaning is of the multiple disasters that occurred in the area. The second part illuminates the design process and content of the Minamisoma and Kesennuma designs. Thirdly, the chapters are alternated with reflections on the design and analyses of the disaster on specific themes: energy, demographics and economic factors, environment, water and ecology. The book ends with observations and transcripts of participants in the process, highlighting the benefits of the approach, the appraisal of the process, the appreciation of the design and the parts that could be improved. This final element will lead to recommendation how to implement these kinds of approaches in the area itself and how to spread out over the Tohuku region (the tsunami hit region) and other regions in Japan and Worldwide.