Choosing Adjustments for Households－ A Case Study of His-Chih

• Main Author: 陳騫文
• Other Authors: 薩支平
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57167612608577573505

碩士 === 長榮大學 === 土地管理與開發學系碩士班 === 91 === 　People carry out essential flooding adjustments according to their past flooding experience. The thesis discusses how the households reduce the potential losses in future flooding even with limited resources. The theory of the household impact adjustment is based on the Protective Action Decision Making Model addressed by Lindell and Perry in 1992. This study examines the relationships among the adjustment measures, the flood experience, and the perceived risks of possible flooding events. The findings can be applied to households and the government, to assist decision-makings regarding flood-disaster management policy. 　The concepts of the research includes: flood-disaster experience, perceived risks of flooding, and disaster-adjustment measures. The findings of this study reveal that these three concepts significantly close-related. First, people experienced higher flood-disaster losses tend to execute the more disaster-adjustment measures. Second, people perceived higher risks tend to adopt more adjustment measures. And third, people experienced more losses tend to have higher perceived risks. The study integrates all the conceptual variables, and reveals similar findings. 　In adopting of flood-disaster adjustment measures, the research shows that the perceived risk of flooding is more critical than the past flooding experience. Thus this study suggests that the government should increase the level of the perceived risk to encourage people adopting disaster-adjustment measures. In compared with structural measures, household adjustments are relatively more complex. Thus, this study suggests that the government has to educate people to in the decision making process in making household adjustments.