When large disaster occurrs in metropolitan area, the effectiveness of evacuation can be maximized by the various actors in the community which are quickly aggregated and implemented. In order to respond to disasters in the community, it is necessary to recognize the incompleteness of disaster administration and to establish an evacuation cooperation system in advance that takes into account the diversity of residents' circumstances. This study examines a large-scale flood evacuation plan in five districts of Koto ward, Tokyo, Japan, which established a community-led evacuation plan after the Great East Japan Earthquake. The main characteristics of the evacuation strategy are the implementation of the plan through the judicial judgment of community members, and preliminary preparation for administrative support for any shortcomings.
Recently, unexpected disasters have increased the demand for utilizing multipurpose of city parks. As a means of mitigating to disasters damage, cases of introducing disaster prevention functions into city parks are increasing. This study is to examines the case of Japan where the disaster prevention parks was active and apply to regional units in Korea. The results shows that it is used the disaster prevention function such as evacuation, education, training and storage of relief goods and is used as a disaster prevention base in Japan's parks. Also, considering characteristics of Jeju-do, it is confirmed that the city park widely distributed in the province could be utilized. The results of this study would contribute to improve local disaster prevention level by introducing disaster prevention function to city parks.
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