Takeru KINOSHITA, Yasuo AOYAGI, Takashi ITOU, Ryouzi HIRAKAWA,Motoki ITOU, Tutomu ANIYA and Akira YAMAMOTO
Abstract
In reaction to storm and flood damages which threaten inhabitants' life and
their properties, local governments give out evacuation calls and directives,
and most of the inhabitants start evacuation by these information. However,
the awareness for evacuation of the inhabitants is very poor, and the rate of
the evacuation is low at present even if self\motivated evacuation is needed.
The evacuation behaviors of the inhabitants upon an outbreak of a disaster are
strongly influenced by psychological factors, such as, gnormalcy bias".
Therefore, to clarify the mentality and action process of the inhabitants for
evacuation and draw up the formulation of evacuation action plan which considers
well the psychological action of the inhabitants are required at the same time.Therefore,
this study extracted psychological factors such as the attitude and responsibilitiness
which concerning evacuation and assumed process of evacuation. This study classified
these processes in four psychological levels, 1) information transfer, 2) awareness
of importance, 3) awareness of needs, 4) intendment by combining some psychological
factors.
For verifying the appropriateness of our hypothesis, we conducted a questionnaire
survey about landslide. And also tried to attempt the classification of the
disincentives which ruled out the process of evacuation behavior in accordance
with assumed evacuation behavior process and surveyed its validity and effectiveness
in flood damages, such as sediment disaster and flooding.
As a result of questionnaire survey, it is cleared that there is a tendency
of the inhabitants' psychological levels for their evacuation behavior process
as we assumed. And we classified disincentives of inhabitants' evacuation behavior
process, and suggested the applicability and the validity of applying psychological
levels for the evacuation action plans.
Key wordsFpsychology of disaster, evacuation behavior, behavior process, psychological
factors, landslides, Nakagusuku village in Okinawa prefecture