Life Reconstruction Processes of Flood Disaster Victims in Semimountainous Area

－A Case Study of Kii Peninsula Flood Disaster (the Typhoon No.12 in 2011) in Japan -

Abstract

We clarified the behaviors, changing in residences and life reconstruction processes of disaster victims sufferedfrom Kii Peninsula flood disaster (the Typhoon No.12 in 2011), which is the biggest semimountainous floodingdisaster in Japan since WWII. We conducted the social random sampled surveys in affected area of Nara prefecturesixteen months after disaster occured. We adopted some scales that were created by the quality and quantitativesurvey of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake disaster and validated a common and a difference point andthe generality of the results of the two disasters. The life reconstruction processes of the two disasters are the samestage and timing.