Shinichi Inaba - 2021 Student Research and Creativity Forum - Hofstra University

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Minimalism linking to Evacuation Safety Background

Situational Factors

Results Decision Making

Evacuation Safety

Situational Factors - Physical Environment - Local Community - Disaster Equipment - Socio-economic Environment - Income - Location

Situational factors influence to a quality of Decision-Making on pre-evacuation time.

Methodology

Well-Tidying Up 70.6%

How can we deal with it?

・Their situational factors “seem” diverse in wider range of socioeconomic factors.

1994 Hanshin Earthquake

- Diverse income level - Diverse gender - Diverse location they’ve lived

Recording Track 68.2% Gathering participants through SNS

Conducting survey

To keep diversity of survey participants, this research does not limit media to gather participants.

Firstly, this survey identified whether they are minimalists or not, and ask evacuation behaviors during natural hazards.

Mastering 60.9%

Summarizing results

Negative Lists 80%

Limitation

Methodology External factors like government official capacity does not work on pre-evacuation period.

Other Natural Hazards

Earthquake

Summary

Person A

Natural Hazards

Earthquakes

Japan

Summary Irrational Behavior During PreEvacuation Period

Summary

Person A

Person B

Person B

Person C

Literature Review on Natural Hazards

Person C

Time First Impact

I am personally sure of being minimalists in Japan with a certain proportion during lack of experiences in oversea.

2011 Tohoku Earthquake

Because this event had over magnitude 9, that will impact the people and gave a need of evacuation.

Since the number of respondents is as small as 54, it is necessary to participate in the questionnaire and verify it in order to make this result more credible.

Stay evacuees vulnerable

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It depends on Situational Factors

First slide well describes and summarizes general understanding of disaster management and the literature review that this study did in thesis hours.

Situational factors consist of physical environment and socio-economic environment The research about human ability for disaster response seems dearth in searching.

Methodology Summary

Living with Less Possession Or Not

Minimalism On Their Benefits

Especially, people staying with less possession and negative lists could be proportionally exemplified evacuators .

Hypothesis will be measured based on survey results.

2011 Tohoku Earthquake

・They are all minimalists

Based on the results of them, minimalists seem better evacuators than non minimalists.

Minimalism On Self Enlightening

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The Motivation on This Research

Focus Group of Answering No – almost 50% for all questions

Less Possession 83.3% Summary

Certain characters will make people dangerous during natural hazards

They all rationally behave during natural hazards.

Summary

Research on evacuation behavior has found that there are physical and socioeconomic environment to decisionmaking strategies which enhance the quality of evacuation behavior.

Correct Evacuation Done Or Not

Literature Review on Minimalists

Behavior→ Minimalist↓

Correct evacuation behavior

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Living with less stuffs

80%

20%

Does not

50%

50%

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nv e r ge n

In investigating the correlation between "minimalism" and "evacuation behavior", it is possible to improve the reliability of the results by clarifying the causal relationship between these two factors as a premise.

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Conclusion Summary

Summary I could measure which minimalism works better on accurate evacuation behavior during natural hazards.

Less Possession

Well-Tidying Up

Recording Track

Five types of Personal Minimalism

Mastering

Negative Lists

Minimalists have a character of individualism, which excludes negative environmental factors during natural hazards.

Minimalists should act regardless situational factors which sometime work for evacuees into irrational behavior.

I think that this research has shown the possibility that minimalism is effective in the event of a disaster, but there are challenges.

According to the comments received from the members of the fire brigade, minimalism can be expected to contribute to the realization of the important element in safety, which is to simplify the options at the time of evacuation. It may be possible to improve the survival rate by having a dialogue.


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