Determinants and Timing of Housing Reconstruction Decisions by the Victims of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster

Abstract

This paper examined the impact of building damaged in the community as a whole upon the responses about housing issues of the victims of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster.Applying GIS to the 1999 Hyogo random sampling survey data, responses of 492 respondents were analyzed partially in comparison with the percentage of fully-damaged buildings in the community as a whole, we found that responses of disaster victims were determined the reality of their individual housing damage, and that of building damaged in the community as a whole. lt is suggested that disaster response and recovery activities shoud take into account. The differences in the need of disaster victims depending on the difference in the severities of building damaged in the community as a whole.