TSUNAMI DISASTER REDUCTION EDUCATION USING TOWN WATCHING AND MOVING TSUNAMI EVACUATION ANIMATION — TRIAL IN BANDA ACEH

Autor: Yozo Goto, Yujiro Ogawa, Takashi Komura
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami. :115-126
ISSN: 1793-7116
1793-4311
Popis: The reconstruction of Banda Aceh has progressed in these three years and survivors are returning to the areas where they were formerly living. Several refuge buildings are being constructed in the coastal area to ensure safety of the nearby residents. However, people's minds would not be at ease without the confidence that they would obtain safety by taking refuge in the building. The authors studied applicability of two Japan's original disaster education methods for capacity building of community, holding a trainers' training workshop with the cooperation of the Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC) of Syiah Kuala University. They introduced a visual education using the tsunami inundation and evacuation animation to the teachers, the volunteers, and the students in the area, and executed an exercise of the residents' participation type education using the town watching method. The participants were asked to evaluate these two methods by a questionnaire after the workshop. Most of them evaluated these methods as very effective and easy to use. The results from the questionnaire also showed clearly that the bottle neck in popularizing disaster education was lack of good education materials.
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