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Consideration on Soft- Disaster Prevention Aiming at Storm Surges Disaster

2009; Volume: 65; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2208/kaigan.65.1366

1883-8944

Yutaka Matsumi, Yoshihide GANZU,

Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies

In Sakaiminato district that has received a storm surge disaster, the present study conducted a questionnaire survey for consciousness of residents on the disaster prevention. Additionally, our previous evacuation scenario was extended and improved by including questionnaire entries relative to the conditions of a refuge and an existence of nursing person. By investigating from the statistical approaches regarding the causal relation between the disaster prevention consciousness and the decision making of evacuation, effective policies for the disaster prevention consciousness of residents were considered. The vulnerability in evacuation routes was examined using the improved evacuation simulation model.