2017 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 44-56
How and to what extent should we manage those environmental risks caused by disasters (Disaster Caused Environmental Risks; DCER, hereinafter) under disaster situation, where humanitarian response actions and economic/social recovery efforts are also taking place？ This research aims to clarify the psychological structure of the citizens’ attitude on DCER management to help consider an appropriate environmental risk management strategy under disaster situation. An internet based questionnaire survey was undertaken to the victims of the 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake, and the results were analyzed using multivariate analysis including structural equation modeling (SEM). The initial hypothesis used here was developed based on the theory of planned behavior. The results showed that the citizens’ priority on the management of environmental risks drops remarkably in disaster times. The SEM results suggested that risk acceptance was found to affect the attitude on the management of environmental risks related to amenity negatively. However, such relationship was not found for people at unhealthy state, which suggests that even during disasters, unhealthy people wish environmental risks related to amenity to be managed appropriately.
