Abstract
This research defines “evacuation attitudes” as people’s predetermined principles regarding whether they have a possibility of taking evacuation actions during a heavy rain or under evacuation advisory information issued from a local government. Evacuation attitudes can be thought as formed by peoples’ experiences such as vain evacuations in past disasters, and/or various restrictions such as having pets or mobility problems. Our analysis classified evacuation attitudes into three different types: a group to evacuate under evacuation advisory information, a group to evacuate by their own decision, and a group never to evacuate. Based on the analysis of 3000 households replying to our questionnaire surveys, it is demonstrated that nearly 50 indices, including flood/landslide risks and community activities, affect the evacuation attitudes and actual evacuation actions at the time of the 2018 Japan floods.
