Action Research for Community Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25282119
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Natural disaster / Disaster prevention science
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Atsumi Tomohide 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (80260644)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 関 嘉寛 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (30314347) ; 稲場 圭信 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (30362750) ; 志水 宏吉 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (40196514) ; 黒崎 浩行 國學院大學, 神道文化学部, 准教授 (70296789) ; 高田 一宏 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 准教授 (80273564) ; 鈴木 勇 大阪成蹊大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (90452383)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: コミュニティ / 復興 / 地域資源 / アクションリサーチ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted a series of fieldwork in three communities - Noda Village, Iwate Prefecture, Minamisanriku Town and Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, devastatingly damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and provided a disaster-recovery education program based on our "Community Recovery Platform". We focused on various local organizations/associations including non-profit organizations, schools, and religious institutions in each community and conducted long-term collaborative practices with local residents related to those organizations. While these practices changed into action research, we appointed Noda Village as our principal area for the platform. Finally, we focused on a local association preparing for community FM radio station as our Community Recovery Platform, and implemented a trial educational program for community recovery collaborated with local schools.

Free Research Field

災害社会心理学