Studies on recoveries of disaster affected places and disaster victims forecasts on recovery processes

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780139
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Kobe University (2015-2017); Tohoku University (2014)
• Principal Investigator: HORIE Shinya 神戸大学, 経済学研究科, 准教授 (50633468)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 居住地移転問題 / 災害復興 / 阪神淡路大震災 / 東日本大震災 / 南海トラフ大地震

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This projects explored the determinants of residential location choices after catastrophe by utilizing the observation from 1995 Kobe Earthquake and 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. I conducted household surveys to the residents in Kobe city and the Tohoku Region. Furthermore, I conducted survey Kochi city, which expects Nankai Trough Earthquake. The analyses that used the data from the survey and the data of land provides the following results. 1. Households utilizes the information of disaster risk when they chose where to live. However, when they would rather to choose to stay in the places if they have attachments to the locals and they have higher moving cost. In other words, if a household have high demands for the public services such as education or medical services, their urges to stay in the places at risks can exceed the risk perceptions. The household does not ignore the risks. It applies to any cities in the Tohoku Region, Kobe city or Kochi city.

Free Research Field

地域経済　災害の経済学