Adaptation activity
"Disaster prevention and mitigation using ecosystems (Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction; Eco-DRR)" is used as a buffer against natural hazards by maintaining ecosystems and ecosystem support services (Fig. 1). It is also used for disaster mitigation for local communities through functions such as ensuring supplies of food and water (Fig. 2). As such, Eco-DRR is one effective approach to combining disaster mitigation and climate-change adaptation.
In order to assess the social implementation of Eco-DRR, the Ministry of the Environment's “Regional Adaptation Consortium Project” is conducting a study to predict the effects of rice field water storage on runoff control and depression formation through improved forestation. Trials are being conducted in Tokushima Prefecture.