Perceptions of Cyclone Preparedness: Assessing the Role of Individual Adaptive Capacity and Social Capital in the Wet Tropics, Australia

Sandanam, Anushka; Diedrich, Amy; Gurney, Georgina G.; Richardson, Tristam D.

doi:10.3390/su10041165

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“…The critical aspect of community resilience as adaptive capacity is accepting that change is ongoing and, consequently, highly unpredictable. As a result, adaptive capacity is about exibility and the ability to make constant changes through the continuous process of adjusting, learning and innovating (Henly-Shepard et al 2015; Sandanam et al 2018). This nding is slightly different from our review nding (Ogah 2021), as most of the 1036 analysed publications de ned community resilience as the combination of coping and adaptive capacity.…”

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confidence: 99%

Operationalising Community Resilience to Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Grounded Delphi Method (GDM) Approach

Alima

Crosbie

Ralebitso-Senior

2021

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Background Climate change and its impact have taken centre stage in contemporary political economic discourse. Climate change is posing complex problems that far outweighs the solutions suggested by the conventional analytical tools used for guiding responses to major environmental challenges. This is particularly the case in developing countries like Nigeria. Unsurprisingly the concept of community resilience towards climate change has received a great deal of attention from researchers and policy makers. However, community resilience is a contested concept, which leads to disagreement about the methods of achieving it. The nature of community resilience makes the measurement of the efficiency of the policies designed to increase community resilience problematic, particularly in developing countries where limited funds must be prioritised. Methods The research presented uses a Grounded Delphi Method (GDM) to identify how experts in Nigeria define community resilience and reach a consensus on its measurement in Nigeria’s context and other developing nations. The data collection involved three rounds of Delphi with a panel of 21 experts, the first round employed semi-structured interviews, following the exploratory Delphi approach, and subsequent rounds employed online surveys. Findings: The findings indicate that there is a process of stages that communities need to go through to become resilient to climate change. These begin with coping with climate change, followed by adaptation to climate change with the final stage being transformation in the face of climate change. Twenty indicators are identified categorised under eight elements that are suitable for measuring community resilience at the different stages of this process. It is interesting to note that the experts in Nigeria who participated in the study excluded notions of transformation in their conceptualisation of community resilience illustrating a potential gap in their perceptions of the requirements for how communities can become fully resilient. Conclusion This research provides a method of prioritising specific, measurable indicators to inform policies designed to reduce the impacts of climate change by supporting community resilience in the context of developing countries with limited funding.

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confidence: 99%

Operationalising Community Resilience to Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Grounded Delphi Method (GDM) Approach

Alima

Crosbie

Ralebitso-Senior

2021

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“…For instance, local households' perceptions toward economic benefits of FCS projects can only be inferred by their answers to questions relating to the economic benefits. Referring to the existing research which identified an association between social capital and perceptions [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], we in our study hypothesize that personal relationships and civic engagement as social capital elements are associated with rural households' perceptions toward benefits of FCS projects. There are two major reasons why we choose personal relationships and civic engagement as social capital elements used in our study: (i) the first reason has been addressed in the above text which states that many studies of rural households use personal relationships and civic engagement as social capital representations; (ii) the other reason is that the survey design predominantly includes questions relating to household-level factors as we intend to collect the household-level data, which inevitably neglects community-level elements in terms of the representation of social capital.…”

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“…Many researchers, including Herreros and Criado [7]; Jones and colleagues [8,9]; Sandanam and colleagues [10]; Ruseva and colleagues [11]; Ziersch and colleagues [12]; Hoogerbrugge and Burge [13]; Jayashankar and Raju [14]; Curry and Holter [15]; Daza [16]; Abrahamowicz [17]; Nowiński and Rialp [18]; Torabi and colleagues [19] and Chen [20] have examined the relationship between social capital and people's perceptions. These studies are primarily focused on the associations between social capital and people's perceptions toward policy implementation; toward immigration; toward entrepreneurial and organizational behaviors; toward education; toward politics, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Role of Social Capital in Rural Households’ Perceptions toward the Benefits of Forest Carbon Sequestration Projects: Evidence from a Rural Household Survey in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces, China

Qiu

Zeng

Kant

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We examined the associations between social capital and rural households’ perceptions toward social, economic, and environmental benefits of forest carbon sequestration projects by employing the proportional odds model based on data collected from a rural household survey in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces, China. Results revealed that: (i) households’ perceptions toward environmental benefits are more positive than their perceptions toward economic benefits and social benefits, and their perceptions toward economic benefits are more positive than their perceptions toward social benefits; (ii) households having a good relationship with village officials have higher odds of holding more positive perceptions toward social, economic, and environmental benefits of the projects; (iii) households which are members of local associations are more likely to have positive perceptions toward benefits of the projects; (iv) households whose members are more frequently involved in village-level public events are more likely to have more positive perceptions toward benefits of the projects; (v) households having more educated household heads have higher odds of holding better perceptions toward the benefits of FCS projects; and (vi) households of Yunnan Province are less likely to express positive perceptions toward benefits of the projects. Based on the research results, we concluded that social capital is significantly and positively associated with rural households’ perceptions toward benefits of forest carbon sequestration projects. Some policy implications are provided regarding how to make use of social capital elements to shape farmers’ perceptions toward benefits of the projects for the purpose of achieving a higher level of local acceptability for and sustainability of the projects.

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“…The people’s preparation for such a situation is therefore inevitable [ 27 ]. Thus, disaster preparedness of the population is assumed as one of the important pillars of the community-based and society-engaging approaches to the DRR and building the resilient society for future disasters [ 44 , 45 ].…”

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Population Preparedness for Disasters and Extreme Weather Events as a Predictor of Building a Resilient Society: The Slovak Republic

Titko

Ristvej

Zamiar

2021

IJERPH

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The current increase and severity of the natural disasters whose effects on the public health are likely to be even more extreme and complex, requires enhancing and developing the disaster preparedness on the population level. In order to be able to do so, it is inevitable and determinative to know the factors that affect people’s preparedness on the population level. Therefore, the objective of this article is to present the results from assessing the factors related to the population preparedness for the disasters on a sample of citizens living from the Slovak Republic. Our research is based on the exploration of the questionnaire survey’ results aimed at investigating the preparedness and preventive proactive behaviour of the population against the disasters. The search for the initiators of such a behaviour and assessment of the influence of various aspects (e.g., the respondents’ experience with disasters, their vulnerability to disasters, the risk awareness, the perception of the disaster risks in the changing environment, etc.) on the respondents’ behaviour against disasters is the main part of the article and is supported by the statistical analysis. The results of the survey suggest that the disaster risk awareness and overall disaster preparedness level is rather poor and the population is inactive. The proactive behaviour of the respondents against the disasters is partially affected by some of their personality and socio-economic characteristics, especially the younger respondents currently incline more to adopting the protective measures. In addition, other aspects, e.g., the negative experience with the disasters in the past influence the preparedness. However, the impacts must have been relatively serious for the proactive behaviour to be influenced. The influences of other aspects as well as the possible methods for improving the disaster preparedness and the possibilities of increasing the resilience of the population as a whole are also discussed in this article.

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Perceptions of Cyclone Preparedness: Assessing the Role of Individual Adaptive Capacity and Social Capital in the Wet Tropics, Australia

Cited by 18 publications

References 58 publications

Operationalising Community Resilience to Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Grounded Delphi Method (GDM) Approach

Operationalising Community Resilience to Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Grounded Delphi Method (GDM) Approach

The Role of Social Capital in Rural Households’ Perceptions toward the Benefits of Forest Carbon Sequestration Projects: Evidence from a Rural Household Survey in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces, China

Population Preparedness for Disasters and Extreme Weather Events as a Predictor of Building a Resilient Society: The Slovak Republic

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