Scheams and subjects for heavy rain disaster in small communities in case of Amami-Oshima flood disaster

Abstract

 The heavy rain disaster is increasing in Japan. Activities of the disaster risk management based on communities are important in small and aged community. The purposes of this paper are arranging the subjects of the community based disaster prevention activities and proveing the policy for supporting to flood risk. The research region is Amami-Oshima island which the record torrential rain fall caused heavy flood disaster on 20th October, 2010. Social researches and a flood analysis were carried out for this disaster. The following things were cleard in this paper. It is important to create the evacuation plan assuming the daytime of the weekday. Residents have the recognition mistaken to the disaster. This is correctable by offering the result of simple analysis of flood.