Evaluation of living environment for refugees after the great east Japan earthquake in each detailed district

Abstract

This study aims to establish a system to evaluate the post-disaster living environment for refugees in each small district as "Quality of Life (QOL)" by a time series. Taking the physical conditions of the residential areas and needs of the refugees into consideration, we evaluated the QOL phases in the Tohoku coastal area that suffered severe damage from The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011.The following results were obtained: 1) It was shown that improvement in the redundancy of a road network contributes to the maintenance and improvement in QOL immediately af-ter the disaster. 2) It became clear that the damage to lifelines or facilities in the coastal area has had a long-term influence on the decline of QOL.