Earthquake Disaster Risk Perception Process Model for Rural Households: A Pilot Study from Southwestern China

Xu, Dingde; Liu, Yi; Deng, Xin; Chen, Qing; Zhuang, Linmei; Yong, Zhuolin; Huang, Kou‐Yuan

doi:10.3390/ijerph16224512

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“…So, flood risk knowledge is possibly a potential factor influencing individuals' attitudes towards floods (H4). According to Xu et al [26], disaster risk perception is found to be significantly positively correlated with coping behaviors to avoid disasters. At the same time, considering the important role of flood risk perception in flood risk management, we expect a higher risk perception to be directly related to more positive coping behaviors (H5).…”

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Affect Path to Flood Protective Coping Behaviors Using SEM Based on a Survey in Shenzhen, China

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The initial concept of flood control has gradually shifted to flood risk management which emphasizes more public participation. Therefore, understanding the public’s protective coping behavioral patterns to floods is significant, and can help improve the effectiveness of public participation and implementation of flood-mitigation measures. However, the quantitative effect of socio-demographic factors on flood risk perception and behaviors is not clear. In this study, the socio-demographic factors are included to explore the quantitative relationship with and the affect path to flood protective coping behaviors with socio-demographic factors are studied. Shenzhen City in China is chosen as the study area, which suffers frequent urban floods every year. Questionnaire surveys are conducted in five flood-prone communities there, and 339 valid questionnaires were collected. The correlations between flood risk perception, flood risk knowledge, flood risk attitude, socio-demographic factors, and protective coping behaviors are analyzed firstly. A structural equation model (SEM) about these factors is then established to verify the correctness of hypothetical paths and discover new paths. The results indicates that socio-demographic factors and flood risk perception do not have impacts on protective coping behaviors directly, but are mediated by flood risk knowledge and flood risk attitude. Flood risk attitude is an important factor that affects protective coping behaviors directly. Moreover, two affect paths to flood protective coping behaviors are proposed. The findings of Shenzhen city in this study can be extended to other cities with similar characteristics, providing support for conducting effective flood mitigation measures.

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Affect Path to Flood Protective Coping Behaviors Using SEM Based on a Survey in Shenzhen, China

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“…According to statistics, since 2000, the earthquake caused a total of 87,900 people died, 830,400 people production and life seriously affected (CRED 2019). China frequently experiences earthquakes, many of which are extremely damaging (Xu et al 2015(Xu et al , 2019b. Since 2000, there have been 178 earthquakes in China greater than magnitude 5, causing a reported 486,000 casualties and direct economic losses of 111 trillion Yuan (CNSB 2018).…”

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Information credibility, disaster risk perception and evacuation willingness of rural households in China

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Information credibility is important for effective disaster communication, and its strength affects the evacuation willingness of residents. However, few reports have studied the correlation of information credibility and disaster risk perception with residents' willingness to evacuate during earthquake threats. Using survey data of 327 rural households located in four counties within earthquake-affected areas in Sichuan Province, this study systematically analyzed the credibility of public and private information about rural households, disaster risk perception and residents' evacuation willingness. After creating an ordinary least square regression model (OLS) to investigate the correlations of the above factors, the results showed that: (1) Both positive public information and negative private information were positively correlated with residents' evacuation willingness, and negative public information and positive private information were negatively correlated with residents' evacuation willingness; (2) the perceived severity of disaster was significantly correlated with residents' evacuation willingness, and the perceived probability of disaster was not significantly correlated with residents' evacuation willingness; and (3) both positive and negative public information indirectly affected residents' evacuation willingness through the perception of disaster severity. This study contributed to our understanding of the correlation of information credibility and disaster risk perception with evacuation willingness and provided important information for effective communication and disaster risk management.

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“…Over the past 20 years, with the movement of geological plates, earthquake disasters have occurred frequently around the world, causing serious losses to human life and property [1][2][3][4]. Statistics indicate that between 2000 and 2018, 830,400 people were affected and 87,900 people were killed by earthquake disasters worldwide [5].…”

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Disaster Risk Perception, Sense of Pace, Evacuation Willingness, and Relocation Willingness of Rural Households in Earthquake-Stricken Areas: Evidence from Sichuan Province, China

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Based on survey data from 327 rural households in the areas affected by the Wenchuan Earthquake and Lushan Earthquake in Sichuan Province, this study systematically analyzed disaster risk perception, sense of place, evacuation willingness, and relocation willingness among residents in these earthquake-stricken areas. Further, this study constructed an ordinal logistic regression analysis to probe the correlations between residents’ disaster risk perception or sense of place and evacuation willingness and relocation willingness, respectively. The results showed that (1) faced with the threat of earthquake disasters, residents have a strong willingness to evacuate and relocate. Specifically, 93% and 78% of the residents in the Wenchuan Earthquake and Lushan Earthquake areas were willing to evacuate and relocate, respectively, whereas 4% and 17% of the residents were unwilling to evacuate and relocate, respectively. (2) Place dependence and the severity of disaster occurrence were significantly positively correlated with residents’ evacuation willingness, while the interaction term between place dependence and the severity of disaster occurrence was negatively related to residents’ evacuation willingness. Specifically, when everything else remains constant, every one-unit increase in place dependence and severity corresponds to increases in the odds of willingness to evacuate by factors of 0.042 and 0.051, respectively; every one-unit increase in place dependence × severity corresponds to a decrease in the odds of willingness to evacuation by a factor of 0.004. (3) Place identity was significantly negatively correlated with residents’ relocation willingness, while place dependence and severity of disaster occurrence were positively related to residents’ relocation willingness. The interaction term between place dependence and the severity of disaster occurrence as well as the interaction term between place identity and severity of disaster occurrence were significantly negatively correlated with residents’ relocation willingness. Specifically, every one-unit increase in place identity corresponds to a decrease in the odds of willingness to relocate by a factor of 0.034, while every one-unit increase in place dependence and severity corresponds to increases in the odds of willingness to relocate by factors of 0.041 and 0.028, respectively, and every one-unit increase in place dependence × severity and place identity × severity corresponds to decreases in the odds of willingness to relocate by factors of 0.003 and 0.003, respectively.

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Earthquake Disaster Risk Perception Process Model for Rural Households: A Pilot Study from Southwestern China

Cited by 49 publications

References 53 publications

Affect Path to Flood Protective Coping Behaviors Using SEM Based on a Survey in Shenzhen, China

Affect Path to Flood Protective Coping Behaviors Using SEM Based on a Survey in Shenzhen, China

Information credibility, disaster risk perception and evacuation willingness of rural households in China

Disaster Risk Perception, Sense of Pace, Evacuation Willingness, and Relocation Willingness of Rural Households in Earthquake-Stricken Areas: Evidence from Sichuan Province, China

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