2000 Volume 44 Pages 325-330
Recently, in flooding-prone area, the flood control facilities have been provided positively, and the incident of flood disaster have decreased. So the opportunities that inhabitants experience the large-scale flood disaster decrease. Consequently, the disaster education and folklore are the chief opportunities for inhabitants to acquire the wisdom on mitigation of flood disaster damages. In this study, we examine the effects of disaster education and folklore of the past flood disaster on consciousness and human behavior for flood disaster. The effects that the disaster education and folklore make consciousness of inhabitants for flood disaster higher, and promote countermeasures and evacuation behavior of inhabitants against flood are confirmed.
