2020 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 73-83
In regional disaster prevention, it has been pointed out that regional mitigation lacking of resident’s independence was decided and implemented. In order to develop the independence, in risk mitigation decision process, it is important that residents understand regional disaster risks and recognize risk mitigation as individual roles, In addition, it is necessary to conduct disaster prevention learning that can promote recognition of individual roles in school education because of promoting the participate of younger generation. In this study, evacuation cooperative gaming simulation for the purpose of independence-development in regional disaster prevention was designed, and conducted for university students. As the survey method, A questionnaire survey was conducted before and after GS. As the results, many participants recognized “regional exchange” as. individual roles, and recognition of individual roles and community based disaster preparedness was promoted by GS. Therefore, this study has shown the effectiveness and the possibility of GS as a disaster prevention learning method aiming at the independence-development in regional disaster prevention in risk mitigation decision process.