Unsafety: Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability

Dr. Shigeo Atsuji is Professor of Informatics at Kansai University in Japan and a Research Fellow at Kyoto University (2012-13). With a DBA in organization theory and a PhD in policy sciences, he is a member of a number of scholarly associations and societies. Professor Atsuji’s research interests focus on management informatics and organizational intelligence, decision-making theory and the organizational aspects of accident and disaster. He has led teams producing case studies of events such as the Fukushima nuclear power station disaster linked to the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011 and the JR West railway accident of 2005 and has presented associated case studies funded by the government at international conferences including those of the International Society for Systems Science and the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management.