A Study of Household Disaster Resilience: The Case of Xinfa Village in Kaohsiung Liugui District

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 都市規劃與防災學系碩士班 === 102 === Lately, United Nations'' main concern on disaster management changed from reducing vulnerability to increasing resilience. In academic research, resilience studies have become prominent subjects. Nowadays, resilience studies focus on big cit...

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Main Authors: Xin-Mei Liu, 劉欣枚
Other Authors: Jie-Ying Wu
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17105529841527545386
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Summary:碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 都市規劃與防災學系碩士班 === 102 === Lately, United Nations'' main concern on disaster management changed from reducing vulnerability to increasing resilience. In academic research, resilience studies have become prominent subjects. Nowadays, resilience studies focus on big cities or large-scaled areas. Very less studies on household resilience. Therefore, our study is mainly on household resilience. This Study chooses Xinfa Village in Kaohsiung Liugui District as case study area since it was seriously destroyed by typhoon Morakot and the victims were enforced to move to different permanent-housing areas. This study first grasp three composition stage of resilience which are original condition, recovery situation, and adaptation learning through literature reviews. This study also establish a framework of five themes as household resilience guidelines of our interviews. The five themes includes: (1)diversity,(2)socioeconomic background of household, (3)information exchange and education, (4)links with external and (5)disaster awareness. After interviewing the residents from Xinfa village living in Long Xing section Liugui District and Shanlin Da’a permanent housing.This study finds that diversity , socioeconomic background of household and links with external are the influential themes of resilience. The theme of diversity (especially housing diversity) and the socioeconomic background of household (the amount of assets) have strong relations with the original condition of resilience. Moreover, the theme of links with external (linkage with other business) is also related with recovery situation. By comparing those influential themes and the three composition stage of resilience, this study finds that the original condition of household is most sanative of resilience, following by the recovery situation. In sum up, to increase the original condition of the household to reduce disaster losses is the most effective way to promote resilience.