2013 Volume 11 Pages 101-113
Local Weather Information (LWI) is an approach to enhance weather risk awareness between producer and user of Weather Information. The LWI's concept is that residents share social reality of disaster risk from various weather information by using usual, plain and local expressions. In this paper, a case study is introduced around the Miya river in Ise city located in the middle of Mie Prefecture. Around this area, Junior high school students and local residents check and share the local past disasters, various weather information and LWI's function. Through this approach, the cooperations are intended to construct between school and community and between students and residents. As preliminary survey, cognition to disaster and efficacy of LWI are checked through a questionnaire survey in Tsujikuru located in this area. According to this survey's results, it shows that even the residents who had suffered from flood disasters in the past have not realized disaster risks before dangerous situation at an event of the 12th Typhoon in 2011. And the results about the efficacy of 4 patterns of LWIs shows increases of rate on actions related to evacuation from disaster in all 4 patterns. From these results, sharing LWIs in the community can drive early actions for prevention disaster, prevent tendency of waiting for more information and even soften resistance of evacuation. In the future, this LWI's approach will expect to connect cooperations among participants more strongly and to be available in community.
