Open spaces and risk perception in post-earthquake Kathmandu city

Shrestha, Shakti Raj; Sliuzas, Richard; Kuffer, Monika

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.02.016

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“…(Slovic et al , 1982; Turner et al , 1986; Dooley et al , 1992; Barnett and Breakwell, 2001), external factors (information, trust, etc.) (Slovic, Layman and Flynn, 1991; Slovic, 1993; Liu et al , 1998; Siegrist and Cvetkovich, 2000; Sjöberg, 2001; Shrestha et al , 2018) and cultural factors (societal structure, believes, habits, etc.) (Bontempo et al , 1997; Weber and Hsee, 1998; Sjoberg, 2000).…”

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Risk perception and awareness of earthquake: the case of Dhaka

Rahman

2019

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Purpose Among the many studies about risk perception, only a few deal with Bangladesh. Paul and Bhuiyan’s (2010) study has shown the earthquake-preparedness level of residents of Dhaka, but there are some biases in the data collection. This paper aims to examine the seismic-risk perception and the level of knowledge on earthquake and preparedness among the residents of Dhaka. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was developed, and data collection was undertaken through home and sidewalk surveys. This paper investigates how attitude, perception and behavior differ depending on gender, age, education and casualty awareness. This research tries to examine and make a comparison of the risk perception and preparedness level between different groups of gender, age and level of education. Findings This research shows that female respondents have a much better risk perception of and are better prepared for earthquakes than male respondents; younger people have a higher knowledge about earthquake preparedness than older people and less-educated people are at a higher risk of unpreparedness than more-educated people. Research limitations/implications This research is only limited to the Dhaka Division. Originality/value This paper concludes by noting that public awareness on seismic-risk perception and mitigation is poor, and their knowledge on basic theory and emergency response must be improved.

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Risk perception and awareness of earthquake: the case of Dhaka

Rahman

2019

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“…To assess the risk perception on earthquake and fire hazards, we adapted a few questions (Table 2 & Table 3) from the available literature on earthquake and fire hazard risk perception (Chan et al 2018;Kung & Chen 2012;Paul & Bhuiyan 2010;Shrestha et al 2018). Two different Risk Perception Indices (RPI) were used to calculate earthquake risk perception (Equation 1) and fire risk perception (Equation 2); both equations were adapted from (Rahman 2020).…”

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“…The preparedness results also show that 41% of the surveyed households do not have an emergency exit to evacuate during a fire emergency. In general, a resident's evacuation behaviour during or after an earthquake event changes with the nearby road layout and the knowledge about a place (Shrestha et al, 2018). So, residents from these households will try to escape from the only door to the nearby roads, which could create a chaotic situation at that moment.…”

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“…Psychometric theory and cultural theory are considered the primary theories that can explain risk perception (Shrestha, Sliuzas, & Kuffer 2018). Appleby-Arnold, Brockdor, Jakovljev, & Zdravković (2018, p.38) argued -"both living in a disaster-prone area and previous experience of disasters have been found to affect disaster risk perception, but they do not directly translate into an increase of perceived future risks".…”

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Earthquake and Fire Hazard Risk Perception: A Study on the Emerging Rangpur City of Bangladesh

2021

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Rangpur city is one of the emerging cities in Bangladesh. In 2012, this city upgraded from municipality to city corporation. On the one hand, the city population started to increase; on the other hand, vulnerability to earthquake and fire hazards are increased due to rapid urbanization. Therefore, we investigate the risk perception of earthquake and fire hazards in Rangpur. The purpose of this study is fourfold: (i) to assess the risk perception of earthquake hazards and fire hazards at the household level; (ii) to investigate the influence of demographic and socio-economic factors on the risk perception of each hazard; (iii) to investigate the preparedness for earthquake and fire hazards; and (iv) to propose planning guidelines and policy interventions for the disaster resilience of the Rangpur city focusing on earthquake and fire hazards. We conducted a questionnaire survey with 558 participants and 9 semi-structured interviews in fifteen electoral wards in Rangpur city. Afterward, we analyzed the data in SPSS and ArcMap platforms. The study results show that socio-demographic indicators such as gender, household ownership type, and residential floor are likely to influence citizens' risk perception. We also find that the spatial distribution of risk perception of both hazards is diversified at the electoral ward level. At the same time, we observe that the level of preparedness for both hazards is not satisfactory. Based on the study findings, we recommend a few planning guidelines and policy interventions for disaster resilience in Rangpur city.

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“…However, many citizens across the globe do not have easy access to open and green spaces in close proximity to their residence. The absence of open and green spaces has various negative impacts, e.g., lack of environmental quality (e.g., increased urban temperature [4]), health issues (e.g., increased risk of obesity [5]), lack of social interaction with neighbors [6]; insufficient spaces for evacuation in case of disasters [7] and missing spaces for economic and livelihood opportunities (e.g., informal street economy [6]). However, the amount of available open and green spaces differs dramatically across cities and regions [8].…”

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Cloud Computation Using High-Resolution Images for Improving the SDG Indicator on Open Spaces

Aguilar

Kuffer

2020

Remote Sensing

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Open spaces are essential for promoting quality of life in cities. However, accelerated urban growth, in particular in cities of the global South, is reducing the often already limited amount of open spaces with access to citizens. The importance of open spaces is promoted by SDG indicator 11.7.1; however, data on this indicator are not readily available, neither globally nor at the metropolitan scale in support of local planning, health and environmental policies. Existing global datasets on built-up areas omit many open spaces due to the coarse spatial resolution of input imagery. Our study presents a novel cloud computation-based method to map open spaces by accessing the multi-temporal high-resolution imagery repository of Planet. We illustrate the benefits of our proposed method for mapping the dynamics and spatial patterns of open spaces for the city of Kampala, Uganda, achieving a classification accuracy of up to 88% for classes used by the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL). Results show that open spaces in the Kampala metropolitan area are continuously decreasing, resulting in a loss of open space per capita of approximately 125 m2 within eight years.

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Open spaces and risk perception in post-earthquake Kathmandu city

Cited by 52 publications

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Risk perception and awareness of earthquake: the case of Dhaka

Risk perception and awareness of earthquake: the case of Dhaka

Earthquake and Fire Hazard Risk Perception: A Study on the Emerging Rangpur City of Bangladesh

Cloud Computation Using High-Resolution Images for Improving the SDG Indicator on Open Spaces

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