title: The Effects of Community Attachment and Information Seeking on Displaced Disaster Victims' Decision Making.
abstract: This paper uses original survey data of the Great East Japan earthquake disaster victims to examine their decision to apply for the temporary housing as well as the timing of application. We assess the effects of victims' attachment to their locality as well as variation in victims' information seeking behavior. We additionally consider various factors such as income, age, employment and family structure that are generally considered to affect the decision to choose temporary housing as victims' solution for their displacement. Empirical results indicate that, ceteris paribus, as the degree of attachment increases, victims are more likely to apply for the temporary housing but attachment does not affect the timing of application. On the other hand, the victims who actively seek information and are able to collect higher quality information are less likely to apply for the temporary housing and if they do apply then they apply relatively later.
authors.affiliation: Kyushu University, Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Kong Joo
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.affiliation: Tohoku University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Ryo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nakakido
authors.affiliation: Kobe University, Department of Economics, Kobe, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Horie
authors.affiliation: Kyushu University, Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Shunsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Managi
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D055866:Earthquakes; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D007564:Japan