Disaster-Resistant Community: An examination of developmental differences

Flood disaster-resistant community projects, which are viewed as a non-infrastructure disaster management strategy, have been implemented to encourage residents to participate in community-based disaster management programs in Taiwan. Although this strategy provides many benefits in principle, there...

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Published in:Natural hazards (Dordrecht) 2020-03, Vol.101 (1), p.125-142
Main Author: Wu, Wei-Ning
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil Engineering
Community involvement
Community participation
Dimensions
Disaster management
Disasters
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Emergencies
Emergency management
Emergency preparedness
Environmental Management
Experimentation
Flood control
Flood management
Geophysics/Geodesy
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Hydrogeology
Natural Hazards
Original Paper
Resource management
Resource utilization
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Summary:Flood disaster-resistant community projects, which are viewed as a non-infrastructure disaster management strategy, have been implemented to encourage residents to participate in community-based disaster management programs in Taiwan. Although this strategy provides many benefits in principle, there is no agreement on what it develops, and its practice varies. In this paper, first, the concept of a disaster-resistant community is refined, building two definitional dimensions: resources and consensus-based emergency management. Based on these dimensions, the current development of a disaster-resistant community is introduced and distinguished from other categories: passive dependency, resource utilization, proactive preparedness, and comprehensive integrated plan. The main characteristics of each category are provided. The model of a disaster-resistant community enables community practitioners and public managers to assess their relative perspectives to bottom-up emergency management approaches, and the model provides considerable information to stakeholders. The disaster-resistant community matrix can notify ongoing theory building and practical experimentation to fill the current literature gap, refine the indicators of emergency management practice, and provide suggestions for voluntary participation in the community-based emergency management process.
ISSN:0921-030X
1573-0840
DOI:10.1007/s11069-020-03865-5