木村 玲欧

<p>This paper examined the impact of building damaged in the community as a whole upon the responses about housing issues of the victims of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster.Applying GIS to the 1999 Hyogo random sampling survey data, responses of 492 respondents were analyzed partially in comparison with the percentage of fully-damaged buildings in the community as a whole, we found that responses of disaster victims were determined the reality of their individual housing damage, and that of building damaged in the community as a whole. lt is suggested that disaster response and recovery activities shoud take into account. The differences in the need of disaster victims depending on the difference in the severities of building damaged in the community as a whole.</p>

<p>Based on a random sampling survey on the "'Individual Recovery Processes from the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji earthquake disaster'", people in the impacted area can be divided into 4 groups depending on the severity of housing damage and their life stages. An 80% of the severely damaged victims were forced to relocate their home・For then. the need for information regarding housing damage peaked at the first one week after the earthquake, and nearly half of the victims made up their minds with regards to where thev live within one month after the earthquake.</p>