Study on Disaster Risk Assessment and Area Business Continuity Planning in Industry Agglomerated Areas (PAP014702)

Código

PAP014702

Autores

Hitoshi Baba, Toshiyuki Shimano, Hideaki Matsumoto

Tema

Flood risk management in mega cities

Resumo

Two large disasters which occurred in 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Flood of Chao Phraya River in Thailand, reminded the risks of business termination and further impacts on national, regional and the global economy through their supply chain. Prearranged Business Continuity Plans (BCP) or Business Continuity Management (BCM) System (BCMS) in private enterprises helped them survive to some extent but finally malfunctioned in continuation of their business or quick recovery from damages due mainly to disruption of business resources such as energy, water, transportation and communications that are essential for their operation.In order to minimize the negative economic impacts or losses particularly by large scale disaster that disrupt fundamental infrastructure in wide areas, it is important to carry out risk assessment at a proper scale and to prepare scenario based disaster management plans for area-wise damage mitigation and strategic recovery. All players should share the plan and coordinate with other player?s actions. In addition, it is essential to establish framework of integrated resource management at a scale of a whole industrial area for effectuating each enterprise?s BCM actions in coordination with the public sector?s actions.In 2013, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) proposed a new concept of disaster risk management in industrial agglomerated areas, as ?Area BCP? and ?Area BCM?, applying to a project in three pilot areas of industry agglomeration in ASEAN region for the first substantiation of the concept.The Area BCP designates a framework and direction of coordinated damage mitigation measures and recovery actions of stakeholders including individual enterprises, industrial area managers, local authorities and administrator of the infrastructures in order for business continuation of area-wise economy such as industrial agglomeration or urbanization.The Area BCM then is defined as a cyclic process of risk assessment, sharing risk and impact information, determining common strategy of risk management, developing the Area BCP, implementing the planned actions and monitoring to self-improve the Area BCM System recurrently in coordination among stakeholders, in order to enhance the capability of effective business continuity of the area.The three pilot areas selected are Bekasi - Karawang industry area in Indonesia, Cavite - Laguna - Metro Manila in the Philippines and Hai Phong industry area in Vietnam. In each area, many stakeholders from public and private sectors have been participating to the project.Although the project is still in a first cycle of the Area BCM process, some important lessons can be explored from the conducted steps of multi-hazard risk assessment, disaster scenario projection, business impact analysis and discussions among stakeholders to formulate the Area BCP. This paper aims to identify the benefits and further challenges of the new approach for enhancing resilience of local economy.