ENHANCING DISASTER REDUCTION CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH RANDOM SAMPLING OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE WORKSHP AND ITS EFFECTIVENESS

Abstract

 To prepare for a large-scale disaster, self-help and mutual help are absolutely imperative. Promoting them further, it is important to raise consciousness of disaster prevention of not only those who have high consciousness but those who don’t. In this study, we randomly chose inhabitants from Basic Resident Register in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, and asked them to participate the disaster prevention workshop ”Hamamatsu City Disaster Prevention Resident Council”. We analyzed how the random choosing contributes to those who have poor consciousness of disaster prevention to promote participation in the workshop.