Is Using Religious Facilities in Urban Areas as Evacuation Shelters Possible? : Focus on Disaster Response Capabilities and the Disaster Mitigation Efforts

• Shen Yiqing

• Inaba Keishin

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 都市部宗教施設の避難所活用は可能なのか : 施設の災害対応力と減災への取組に注目する
• トシブ　シュウキョウ　シセツ　ノ　ヒナンジョ　カツヨウ　ハ　カノウ　ナノカ　シセツ　ノ　サイガイ　タイオウリョク　ト　ゲンサイ　ヘノ　トリクミ　ニ　チュウモク　スル

Abstract

With the amendment of the Basic Act on Disaster Management in 2013, the roles of various entities during large-scale, wide-area disasters came to be emphasized. As a result, mutual assistance through diverse citizen participation also came to be regarded as a more important part of disaster prevention measures. Although research on religious facilities operating as evacuation shelters has gained attention during this process, examinations that focus on the possibility of using religious facilities in urban areas as evacuation shelters in times of disaster are still insufficient. In modern cities, uneven spatial distribution and regional differentiation of social attributes exist. As a result, there is a tendency for attributes such as population, income, and age composition to be unevenly distributed according to the context of each region. The disaster response capabilities of religious facilities, as well as their intention to cooperate in disaster prevention measures, may, therefore, be affected by such regional attributes. In order to provide useful insights into the practice of evacuation shelter operations for religious facilities in the future, this paper utilizes data from the "Survey on the Acceptance System for Religious Facilities in Tokyo during Normal Times and Disasters" [conducted by Japanese Association of Religious Organizations, Osaka University and JTB]. The discussion focused on the impact of regional attributes on disaster response capabilities and disaster mitigation efforts. As a result, it was found that the closer to the city center, the higher the disaster response capability of the religious facility. On the other hand, regarding disaster mitigation efforts, there was no regional difference in the intention of religious organizations to cooperate in disaster prevention measures.

Journal

• 災害と共生

  災害と共生 4 (2), 11-23, 2021-03

  「災害と共生」研究会

Keywords

• 都市部宗教施設
• 避難所
• 災害対応力
• 減災への取組
• 地域偏在構造
• Urban religious facilities
• Evacuation shelters
• Disaster mitigation efforts
• Intention to cooperate in disaster prevention measures
• Uneven regional structures

Details

• CRID: 1390853649754634240
• NII Article ID: 120007008207
• DOI: 10.18910/79234
• ISSN: 24332739
• HANDLE: 11094/79234
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • IRDB
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN