2021 Volume 77 Issue 2 Pages I_108-I_113
Recently, personal awareness and community disaster prevention abilities against flood risk need to improve because of intensifying and frequent heavy rains and floods. To clarify the factors affecting changes in community disaster prevention abilities over the past ten years, the authors analyzed questionnaire surveys that were conducted twice for all residents' associations in Shiga prefecture.
As a result, residents' associations that contacted with community flood control team or local government frequently or that checked a flood hazard map in detail tended to improve all the elements of the community disaster prevention ability. In addition, a positive relationship was found between the change in the presence/absence of a community disaster prevention group and the evacuation guidance activity by residents association during the high-risk situation of flooding.
