Tsunami Disaster Reduction Education Using Town Watching and Moving Tsunami Evacuation Animation — Trial in Banda Aceh

Abstract

The reconstruction of Banda Aceh has progressed in these three years and survivors are returning to the areas where they were formerly living. Several refuge buildings are being constructed in the coastal area to ensure safety of the nearby residents. However, people's minds would not be at ease without the confidence that they would obtain safety by taking refuge in the building. The authors studied applicability of two Japan's original disaster education methods for capacity building of community, holding a trainers' training workshop with the cooperation of the Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC) of Syiah Kuala University. They introduced a visual education using the tsunami inundation and evacuation animation to the teachers, the volunteers, and the students in the area, and executed an exercise of the residents' participation type education using the town watching method. The participants were asked to evaluate these two methods by a questionnaire after the workshop. Most of them evaluated these methods as very effective and easy to use. The results from the questionnaire also showed clearly that the bottle neck in popularizing disaster education was lack of good education materials.

Trends in Civic Engagement Disaster Safety Education Research: Systematic Literature Review and Keyword Network Analysis

“…To understand the quantitative and qualitative trends of the research and to explore the direction of future research, we established a reference frame and analyzed the research data for each characteristic. In line with previous studies on literature reviews, it was useful to identify the publication year of the studies, the ground model and theory, the type of disaster, the subject and background of the study, and the level of analysis [38][39][40][41].…”

“…In the process of collecting literature, we applied the PICO process. This is a method that can structure a search strategy suitable for research goals and is widely used in literature review and meta-analysis [39][40][41]. First, "Participants" (P) refers to the subjects of the study; "locally-based civic engagement" and "disaster safety education" were set as the keywords related to community-based disaster safety education.…”

“…In the process of reviewing the selected literature, we discovered several new papers and added them to our analysis. In order not to omit essential data in this study, we additionally reviewed literature related to community commitment, disaster case studies, and citizen participation [9,10,16,21,41]. The specific reasons the documents were included in the study are as follows.…”

“…Through this study, it was suggested that it is necessary to study and teach not only the theoretical characteristics of natural disasters, but also the characteristics of disaster occurrence unique to the community. A study by Goto et al [41] suggested the development of educational methods for residents to participate in education to respond to disaster situations and secure sustainable disaster response capabilities. The study emphasized the importance of residents' participation and commitment.…”

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