2019 Volume 75 Issue 2 Pages I_27-I_37
In disasters, some areas are damaged hugely, but other areas are not damaged. However, some of them can have high disaster potential. We call such cases “Potential cases”. Continuous heavy rainfall in July in 2018 in Japan caused huge damages in various areas. We had a survey in this Potential case. The southern area of Kyoto city had damaged very little. However, this area had high disaster potential by some simulations. We had two kinds of surveys in this area; one is a questionnaire for residents in Shimotoba by the community and the other is WEB one for residents around the rivers in southern area of Kyoto which is influenced by the floods.
We check disaster consciousness and evacuation situation in the disaster mentioned above. Moreover, if the residents are indicated that their areas had high disaster potential and you may had been damaged by the floods, we check how they consider their action against the floods and change their evacuation willingness. From results, some residents indicated the changes and they have some characteristics on “sensitivity of disasters” and “understanding of some disaster treatments” and so on.
Disaster potential can efficiently work to change optimistic opinions against the disasters of some residents. We need to continue researching disaster potential in communities.
