Conclusion of the [Part1]

It follows from what has been discussed thus far that the intended object of this approach was satisfied. Namely, there is no doubt that this approach prompted both the governmental fire fighter and the voluntary fire fighter in this area to establish cooperative relations for the regional fire risk reduction. In view of the details of their history before this

approach, such a cooperative relations between them had seemed to be impossible. However, we may say that the strategy, which was devised as essential points from 1 to 4 according to an investigation of actual conditions, was helpful for solving this chronic problem peculiar to this district.

Turning now to the above strategy, far from being limited to a topic of a fire risk reduction in this district, it might have a wide application. That is to say, if we had concentrated to solve the subordinate immediate problems shortsightedly without their cognitions of both what was a super ordinate purpose and what was a context which connect the super ordinate purpose to the subordinate solutions, then both parties could not have approved of the subordinate solutions as shown in Table 4.2. In other words, we can compare the past situation to the proverb “cannot see the forest for the trees”. Needless to say, in this case, the word “forest” corresponds to the common public spirit “saving lives as much as possible” as a super ordinate purpose, and the word “tree” corresponds to the subordinate immediate problems as shown in Table 4.2 In brief, without unity of fundamental purpose, it is mostly impossible to solve any immediate conflicts or discords with the parties concerned.

Moreover, what should be also emphasized is that several questionnaire survey reports for both parties played an important role in understanding of another party’s opinion, and that a visualization by the Regional Fire Fighting Validity Map made it possible for them to understand how effective a certain measure was on an achievement of the united purpose.

We should also mention a continuity. As for a continuity, it has been reported that it often happened that the outcome of certain practical activity (Katada et al., 2011), such as our approach, was brought to naught just as the prime mover suspended an activity. On the contrary, after the joint meeting, far from being brought to naught, the effect of our practical approach spread in various ways as follows. According to some interviews with both leaders in August 2011, both of them already started to put several ideas as shown in Table 4.2 into

practice as much as possible. Above all, both have become to try to build up a closer connection with each other, such as a close teamwork at a fire site, calling each other by name, and so on. Furthermore, a fire drill at an elementary school and so on became to be executed under a collaboration between them. Incidentally, in the past the number of participants at the above fire drill was usually about five persons from Bang Khae fire station while there was no one from the voluntary fire fighting groups. On the contrary, almost 30 persons from Bang Khae fire station and almost 70 persons from the voluntary fire fighting groups join the fire drill at present. After such fire drills, many groups of schoolchildren became to make a field trip to the Bang Khae fire station with teachers, and both the governmental fire officers and the voluntary fire fighters became to deal positively with such visitors. We heard that this was quite a rare situation not only in Bang Khae district, but also in whole Bangkok’s history. Because of this, this approach is attracting many people’s attention, such as many voluntary fire fighters and governmental fire officers in whole Bangkok, the headman of Bang Khae district, the deputy governor of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, and so on.

A future direction of this study will be to investigate the method or strategy to be prevailed widely not only throughout Bangkok and Thailand, but also to some regions whose official fire fighting ability is not enough in the world. The point of this investigation will be whether the practical approach should be executed in much the same way as the case of Bang Khae district or not. However, if we focus within Bangkok, we expect that it will be more simply. That is to say, it is likely that it is sufficient to introduce only the process of Bang Khae district as a pilot case study to the persons concerned in the future subject area, because most of such persons in Bangkok already have interest in this matter of Bang Khae district. In this sense, we may say that an investigation of an effective publicity strategy will become to be significant in Bangkok.

[PART 2]

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

- Trial Case Study on the Revitalization of the Regional Fire Preparedness in Japan -

This [Part 2] would present in a part of developed countries in Chapter 6. However, this section would describe Trial Case Study on the Revitalization of the Regional Fire Preparedness in Japan to comparable with developing countries in [Part 1]. This [Part 2]

fulfilled with five contents in this chapters as developed countries. First of all, I would like to propose introduction content. Then, Second content described the Frame of Analysis. Third content started investigating at Visualization the effects of “an approach to awaken a neighbor’s motivation” by using outputs of a fire spread simulation. After that, I would show the result of “Investigation and promotion of “an approach to awaken a neighbor’s motivation”. Last of this content would summarize in content of “Trial Case Study on the Revitalization of the Regional Fire Preparedness in Japan”. After all sections completed, Finally, Chapter 7 summarizes the thesis and the conclusions of this study.