Comparative Analysis on the Social Resilience of Local Communities and Companies After the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake


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The concept of resilience is widely used in the disaster management field. In the earthquake-engineering field, many studies have investigated the structural performance of buildings and seismic resilience in terms of performance-based earthquake engineering. However, there are a limited number of studies on the social aspects of resilience. This study focuses on social activities by private companies. A company’s social activity is termed as its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Further, this study also focuses on the relationships between the resilience of a community and the companies’ CSR activities in a local area. We conducted two questionnaire surveys for citizens and companies in Iwaki City, which suffered from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. We hypothesized that social activities by companies would improve the resilience of the local community. In the questionnaire surveys, we set two types of respondents as follows: CSR staff of companies and citizens in the local areas. Using the questionnaire responses of the CSR staff, we analyzed characteristics of CSR activities using principal component analysis. Subsequently, using the local citizens’ responses, we compared the differences in their life recovery in terms of economic circumstances and social aspects.

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16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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Santiago (CL)
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2017-01-09 / 2017-01-13
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