Resiliency or Sustainability: Disaster Risk Reduction and Airport Development in the Ogasawara Islands

David N. Nguyen, Miguel Esteban, Gui Lohmann

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Abstract

This paper explores the key concepts behind resilience and sustainability, to identify areas where these concepts conflict and areas of commonality. Then, it examines how key stakeholders in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, view local hazard vulnerabilities, and how the island could best address them within the context of the development of an airport. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, the authors identified that respondents were divided between maintaining environmental sustainability ver-sus strengthening operational resiliency. Based on these results, an alternative approach to solve the controversy over the development of the airport, which could meet the demands of dif ferent groups within the islands, is proposed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)45-58
Number of pages14
JournalGeographical Sciences
Volume76
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Keywords

  • airport development
  • disaster
  • Japan
  • Ogasawara
  • resiliency
  • sustainability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Geography, Planning and Development

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