The External Validity of the Causal Factors on Effective Personnel Support by Local Governments during Emergency Response and Relief after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Abstract

The Great East Japan Earthquake formed the hypothesis to improve the effectiveness of personnel support by local governments. The purpose of this study is to examine the validity of the model based on the hypothesis, with the following procedure. 1) Conducting a survey through questionnaires on cities and towns in Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures which have received personnel support. 2) Examining the model that looks at the degree of effectiveness of personnel support by local governments which is mainly determined by the following two powers by multiple regression analysis. 1) power to receive outside support, 2) power to provide support .