- How to manage and reduce social vulnerabilities from coupled critical infrastructures against all hazards and threats
- How to socially implement triage of critical infrastructures in affected areas
- What the legislative issues are in dealing with emergencies
- How to organize collaborative actions across sectors and leverage private-sector resources
- Roles and responsibilities of government as risk bearer of last resort
Infrastructures around Tokyo
- Legislative issues for dealing with emergencies
- Legal preparedness for regulatory and jurisdictional actions before, during and after emergency situations
- Institutional design for ensuring national crisis/emergency management capability
- Review of the National Response Framework & National Incident Management System
- Institutionalization of future-oriented thinking across ministries and agencies such as horizon scanning/strategic foresight capability
- Organization of collaborative actions across sectors and leveraging private-sector resources
- Policy and institutional design for critical infrastructure protection
- Cooperation scheme (government-private, central-local sector)
- Prioritization of critical infrastructures and resilience planning
- Investment scheme and incentive offering for enhancing resilience
- R&D for critical infrastructure protection
- Relevant activity: Joint meeting with COCN
- (Council on Competitiveness-Nippon) since June 2013
- (Final Report: http://pari.u-tokyo.ac.jp/policy/policy140327_cocn.html)