Promotion Methods of Mutual Assistance for Snow Removal Activity on the Community Roads through the Communication among the Residents of the Local Settlements

摘要

In heavy snowfall regions, the snow removal on the roads is indispensable in winter tornprotect socioeconomic activities and daily lives. However, because of tight governmentrnbudget, they cannot make sufficient support for snow removal. Therefore, we consideredrnthat it might be effective that the residents of a local settlement themselves found their ownrnways in snow removal on community roads, and held workshops and experiments to findrntheir solutions. So we held some workshops in five settlements. At the workshops, thernparticipants found issues and solutions for snow removals on the community roads, and therndemonstration experiments were implemented. In the next winter the evaluation of thesernworkshops was implemented. As a result, the following conditions are required to thernimprovement of local disaster prevention capability in the winter; (1)Participation consists ofrndiverse organizations; (2)The workshop program is configured to adapt to local conditions;rn(3)Proposed countermeasures are implemented; (4)The program is linked to continuedrnactivities. We also made a handbook to activate communications among local residents onrnthe snow removal to roll out this methods to the other communities.