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The frequency and intensity of natural disasters have been increasing in recent decades; especially earthquakes are one of the causes of major natural disasters. Improving community adaptive response to disasters based on community capacity has gradually become an effective means of coping with disaster risks, as well as improving residents' well-being and community participation in disaster planning and management. We integrate community resilience and disaster management to establish an evaluation framework for community-based earthquake disaster management (CEDM) based on community perspectives under importance performance analysis method, and identify the factors affecting community adaptive behavior. Features that affect the differentiation of community residents' adaptive behavior in CEDM program are classified into risk perception, learning earthquake knowledge, the ability on earthquake prevention, and creating a platform on CEDM. The results identify that the CEDM has to integrate the higher community education plan, the stronger flexible to disaster preparedness, the higher the residents' awareness of disaster prevention, the stronger the ability to adapt to disasters; the higher the ability of the government and non-profit organizations to cooperate with the community to deal with disasters, and the stronger the community's ability to manage disasters. These findings provide valuable insights into the construction of CEDM systems and related policymaking.

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The frequency and intensity of natural disasters have been increasing in recent decades, especially earthquakes are one of the causes of major natural disasters. Improving community adaptive against disasters based on community capacity has gradually become an effective means of coping with disaster risks and improve residents' well-being. However, few studies have explored the correlation between community adaptive to disasters and awareness of disaster preparedness. In the study, we establish an evaluation adaptive framework of development community earthquake disaster management (CEDM) based on community-capacity and their perspectives under importance-performance analysis (IPA) method in the eastern Taiwan, and identifies the factors. Features that affect the differentiation of community residents' participation on CEDM program are divided into four dimensions: 1) risk; 2) learn; 3) cope; and 4) change, revealing the degree of disaster prevention ability and awareness of urban and suburban residents, as well as residents' satisfaction with the government's community disaster prevention measures. The higher the residents' awareness of disaster prevention, the stronger the ability to adapt to disasters; the higher the ability of the government and non-profit organizations to cooperate with the community to deal with disasters, the stronger the community's ability to manage disasters. The research contributes a novel conceptual framework and the findings point to directions for the sustainable development of CEDM project management in Taiwan.

The frequency and intensity of natural disasters continue to increase with climate change, especially earthquake disasters, causing community in the serious damage and casualties. How to improve community awareness and adaptability to disasters is key point for policymakers, because each community may bring different perspectives to understanding community disaster adaptive and resilience. Based on the aspects of adaptive capacity and community resilience, we adopting the choice experiment (CE) to assess the disaster prevention preferences of urban and suburban residents to establish an adaptive evaluation framework for community disaster management. The results show features that affect the differentiation of community residents' participation regarding community disaster management program are : 1) to have a regularly disaster prevention drills, 2) to cooperate drills with local governments, 3) to train to become a disaster prevention vanguard, and 4) to assemble NGOs and government forces to respond for disaster-occurring. The scenario of integrated disaster prevention educations and community organization transformation has the highest welfare effects among all the proposed scenarios; And only if the disaster prevention management preference and disaster perception ability of community residents are applied to the disaster prevention strategy, so that disaster management can be effectively implemented in the community. These findings provide useful theoretical construction and policy inspiration for the government in the development of disaster management and community disaster management organizations.