SOCIAL EXPERIMENT FOR MY-TIMELINE DEVELOPMENT TO IMPROVE RESIDENTS AWARENESS OF FLOOD DISASTER PREVENTION

Abstract

 One third of the area of Joso City suffered flooding due to the Kanto-Tohoku torrential rain. Numerous delays and isolation of evacuation occurred in the flood. We developed a planning process of My-TimeLine with the aim of allowing each resident to grasp information, judgments and actions necessary for evacuation and to have suitable evacuation methods. When developing the methods, in cooperation with 165 Joso-City residents at the committees, we created My-TimeLine through a social experiment. From the questionnaire response results of the residents, the knowledge and preparation of flood risk were shared by the residents during the consideration process of the My-TimeLine. In conclusion, we showed that residents themselves could organize and prepare in advance the actions for disaster prevention such as evacuation.