RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLOOD EXPERIENCE AND EVACUATION INTENTION OF RESIDENTS: A CASE STUDY OF SANBONYANAGI, KOGA CITY, SHIGA PREF.

Abstract

Currently, the evacuation system, which urges all residents to evacuate their houses, is being reevaluated. Therefore, it is necessary to draw on community members' diverse experiences of the past flood to inform the reevaluation of evacuation protocol. In this study, a questionnaire targeted residents of Sanbonyanagi district in Koga city, Shiga Prefecture, where few residents evacuated their houses. The questionnaire was conducted to clarify the relationship between residents' experience with floods and their evacuation intention. Results revealed that residents who experienced the flood have their own criteria of how to evacuate after understanding the characteristics of each method as well as the hazardous nature of a flooding situation more deeply than residents who had not experienced a flood.