Building a disaster support system to recover ordinary lives : focusing on social vulnerability

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330164
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Aichi University
• Principal Investigator: TSUCHIYA Yo 愛知大学, 文学部, 准教授 (60339538)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): IGUCHI Takashi 奈良女子大学, 生活環境科学系, 准教授 (40432025) ; IWANAGA Rie 神奈川県立保健福祉大学, 保健福祉学部, 講師 (60438166) ; TAMIYA Yuko 神戸学院大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (90411868)
• Research Collaborator: SHIKATA Masato 関西学院大学, 総合政策学部, 講師 (70526441) ; TANAKA Soichiro 関東学院大学, 経済学部, 講師 (40512570)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 社会的弱者 / 東日本大震災 / 生活困窮 / 複合的問題

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project notices the hardship coursed by the Great East Japan Earthquake. This hardship includes several complex elements, such as complications with physical and mental healthcare, handicap accessibility, getting jobs, and so on. This information was gathered through surveys and interviews conducted in Iwaki-City and Kamaishi-city.
Our research reveals the details of the lives of individuals and households before and after the disaster as well as depth of the suffering. It is important to mention that affects on the elderly, disabled, single parents families and impoverished were much more significant. And it is necessary to think defects and contradictions of the social security system have existed since before the disaster was generated.

Free Research Field

社会学