Reports from Sun Yat-Sen University Describe Recent Advances in Disaster Risk Reduction (Acceptability of Debris-flow Disasters: Comparison of Two Case Studies In China)

2019 APR 09 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily -- Research findings on Disaster Risk Reduction are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Guangdong, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Disaster risk perception involves numerous factors. People’s awareness towards disaster risk plays an important role for the analysis and adaptation of disaster risk.”

Financial support for this research came from National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Sun Yat-Sen University, “The public individual factors (age, sex, educational level, occupation, and income) immensely influence disaster risk acceptability. Four indicators (distance, frequency, warning time, and insurance premium) were chosen as representing debris-flow-disaster acceptability to explore the relationship of the indictors among the factors, so as to find out the significant individual factors. Based on-site questionnaire survey and interviews with participants in Zhouqu (northwestern China) and Dongchuan (southwestern China), a total of 459 respondent samples were obtained. By independent sample t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and Brown-Forsythe test, through comparative analysis of the results, the significant individual factors and the common concerned consequence, indicator acceptability, and influential factors in both areas were identified. The people of Zhouqu and Dongchuan were commonly concerned about environmental destruction. With regard to specific property loss, housing was of the highest concern for the people in both areas. Commonly, frequency acceptability was the lowest; insurance premium acceptability was the highest. Sex and income were the common principal factors significantly influenced debris-flow-disaster acceptability in the two debris-flow-prone areas.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “These findings may provide critical implications for debris-flow risk analysis and reduction in China.”

For more information on this research see: Acceptability of Debris-flow Disasters: Comparison of Two Case Studies In China. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2019;34():45-54. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Bv, PO Box 211, 1000 Ae Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-disaster-risk-reduction/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting X.L. Liu, Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Geog & Planning, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include C. Miao and L.H. Guo.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.11.004. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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