A STUDY ON MACRO, MESO, AND MICRO INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ANTI-DISASTER MEASURES
Tetsu SUZUKI · INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING REVIEW · 1991
The author of this thesis has clasified the information system in anti-disaster measures into three sub systems as follows:1) Macro system shall pertain public scale operations in which the things will be governed by the administrative organizations, as seen in the case of district scale flood warning. 2) Meso system shall be the co-operative activities, as seen in the case of water-level observetion at a flood time by local people living in the neighbourhood at the river, and 3) Micro system is to be characteriset by being carried out at an individual level, as seen in the case of personal inspection on roof-water leaking at the time of storm.These sub-systems are to be so organized that the most effective performance shall be obtained.