Teruko Sato

Municipal Employee's Awareness of Flood Risks and Flood Mitigation Measures

The purpose of this study is to analyze the flood risk awareness of municipal employees. The analysis reported in this study was based on replies to a questionnaire survey administered to persons in the River Management Section and the Emergency Management Section. In general, we expected that, among those who responded to the survey, there would be differences in response between those who are employees of local government being higher level of flood risk and those who are employee of local government being lower level of flood risk. Accordingly, we made a clear distinction in analyzing the responses given by the two sides.Our research question concerned awareness of flood risks and awareness of the needs to take measures against them. We made path diagrams based on their questions in all cases. The analysis results clearly showed that, in all cases, 1) they emphasize the risk of inland water flooding over that of foreland water flooding, 2) awareness of public demand and their own perception of flood risk relate almost equally to awareness of the needs to take measures against flood risks and 3) there is little con-elation between acceptance awareness of flood risk and perception of the needs to take measures against them.