Relative Analysis Between a Community's Disaster Recovery Potential and Social Capital

Abstract

This paper aims to construct a quantifying method to measure a community's disaster recovery potential. In constructing a quantifying method, the indexes were selected from literature surveys, and the weight of each index was determined by an expert questionnaire survey using AHP. Also, in order to reinforce a communities disaster recovery potential before an occurance of a disaster, a relative analysis between a community's potential and social capital is executed by a questionnaire survey to residents in the Suginami-Ward in Tokyo. It became clear that in order to reinforce a community's disaster recovery potential, it is important to strengthen the network between the residents.