부산대학교 도서관

Recent heavy rain disasters in Japan showed the fact that although government issued evacuation information, there were people who did not evacuate. This indicates that evacuation information based on science, which is institutionalized as a decision-making mechanism for government, is not properly utilized by public. This study conducted surveys to residents of Mabi Town, Kurashiki City, Japan, which was severely flooded due to the Western Japan heavy rain of July, 2018. The study tried to identify factors which triggered risk awareness of residents comprehensively, and examined how those factors contributed to evacuation decision-makings using “Evacuation Act Curve,” the method adapted to the “Recovery Curve” surveys. As a result, the study revealed the fact that residents were tend to evacuate based on changes in familiar environment rather than science-based information, which means that disaster information was still not considered as familiar information.