GENERAL PUBLIC'S COGNITIVE AND EVALUATION STRUCTURE OF POLICIES FOR MAKING CITY RESILIENT

Abstract

 This paper attempts to clarify a cognitive and evaluation structure of the general public in terms of policies for making city resilient by analyzing the data of web-based questionnaire in nine cities in Japan. Major findings are as follows; i) The most respondents recognize risk of earthquake, most respondents regard “high percentage of elderly population/depopulation” as vulnerability, most respondents regard “suspension of administrative activities” as situation to be avoided in general. However, the scores of most indices of risk and velnerability are different among cities. ii) The cognitive and evaluation structure in which external force risk, vulnerability, situation to be avoided are assumued to determine the attitude to resilient policies was proven to be supported basically but naturaly it is different among cities in detail.