A Study on the Effectiveness of Disaster Prevention Education of sediment-rerated disaster at Universities

-Focusing on reasons for the change in thinking before/after the class-

Abstract

The low evacuation rate of residents from sediment-related disaster is one of major problems. The effectiveness of disaster prevention education in elementary, junior high, and high schools has been called into question, and there are few papers on the educational effects of the education at universities. Therefore, we analyzed the educational effects by having students freely choose their own disaster awareness before and after a disaster prevention class given by the person in charge of erosion control in the prefecture, and having them look at the reasons for the change in their awareness. The results showed that more than half of the students voluntarily changed their social acceptance to facility construction, evacuation, and residential relocation after learning the measures taken by front-line experts, but there are still many students who accept disasters without taking measures due to the scale of natural disasters and the difficulty of predicting them.