Paper published in refereed journal: Effectiveness of early warning and community cooperation for evacuation preparedness from mega-risk type coastal hazard in childcare centers

 

International Journal of
Disaster Resilience
in the Built Environment

The work presented at the 8th International Conference on Building Resilience in Lisbon (2018 ICBR) has been published as a research paper in a refereed journal, as follows: Effectiveness of early warning and community cooperation for evacuation preparedness from mega-risk type coastal hazard in childcare centers, by Abel Táiti Konno Pinheiro and Akihiko Hokugo, in International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, Aug. 2019.

This paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of early warning and community cooperation for evacuation preparedness from mega-risk type coastal hazard in childcare centers, focusing on the evacuation of childcare centers from tsunami at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011. As the research method, surveys were conducted in public childcare centers affected by tsunami in Kesennuma city in Miyagi Prefecture and Kamaishi city in Iwate Prefecture. We thank all teachers of childcare centers that contributed to the survey. Special thanks to Guest Editors of the Special Edition of IJDRBE based on the 2018 ICBR, Nuno M., José M. M and Pedro P. P., and IJDRBE Editorial Team, Dilanthi A., Richard H. and Chathuranganee J.