| Summary: | 碩士 === 中華科技大學 === 土木防災工程研究所 === 99 === With drastic changes to the natural environment, oftentimes the burden of responsive action far exceeds the capability of what humans can deal with, thereby resulting in “Natural Disasters”. In recent years, the rapid growth of human population has pushed mankind to aggressively expand its living space to the natural environment for more resources in order to meet the needs of people. Areas that originally had high environmental tolerance are gradually becoming areas of low environmental tolerance due to expansion of humans. This research uses Government Institutions in Northern Taiwan as objects of study on “Disaster Awareness” by “Public Servants”, as well as their behaviors in response and adjustment. And, the study uses questionnaire survey and statistical analysis on its “Qualitative Research”. The content is divided into two parts, the “Objects of Investigation” and the “Research Topic”. The first part primarily focuses on the public servants who work in Government Institutions in Northern Taiwan. The second part focuses on the cognition and understanding of natural disasters by public servants, as well as the relevance of public servants’ cognition and understanding on their response behavior in the event of natural disasters.
The results showed that natural disasters by the level of severity are earthquake, landslide, typhoon, and flood. Female respondents have higher levels of awareness for natural disasters than male respondents. For individuals with low levels of awareness to natural disasters, most are 51 years or older, accounting for 6.9%. For respondents 41 to 50 years-old, their inclination to individual response behavior, prevention, and devotion accounts for 16.8%.
Respondents of different regions and different education levels have varied cognition to natural disasters. The correlation coefficient between the awareness of “Level of Seriousness” and the inclination of “Prevention” is 0.346. The correlation coefficient between the awareness of “Level of Seriousness” and the inclination of “Devotion to Disasters” is 0.256. The correlation coefficient between the awareness of “Importance of Prevention” and the inclination of “Prevention” is 0.146. The correlation coefficient between the awareness of “Importance of Prevention” and the inclination of “Devotion to Disasters” is 0.135.
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