Effect of Geographic Risk and Disaster Memory on Family Disastser Preparedness of Residents in the Area that Has not been Affected by a Disaster for A Long Time

A Case Study of Sekikawa Village, Niigata Prefecture which Affected by the 1967 Uetsu Flood Disaster-

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to clarify the effects of geographic risk and local disaster memory on the disaster preparedness of residents in an area that had been severely damaged by floods in the past and had not experienced floods for more than 20 or 30 years. The results of the analysis showed that the disaster preparedness of residents and knowledge of past floods were related to the number of victims of past floods in the region. Also, Geographic risks were found to affect the disaster preparedness of residents, but the effect of elevation, which was the greatest risk, was small.