Asscssment of the community response capacity for the shelter management during a large-scale disaster

Abstract

During a large-scale disaster, shelters in stricken area have responsible to secure sufferer's health and living. However, responsibnities of municipalities in the stricken area used to be deteriorated and they should not be able to take care of all of shelters. So, the community response are looking forward to response in shelter management based on lessons learned from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster. In this study, we propose an assessment method of the community response capacity for the shelter management. The assessment method include both of sufferers capacities and acceptability of shelters through a questionnaire survey for experts.