Abstract
To create communities that are resistant to disasters, public disaster prevention and response must be reinforced by promoting disaster prevention and knowledge and technology to ensure an adequate response through public participation. Promoting disaster prevention measures reduces the number of factors in communities that pertain to disasters. Changhua County contains 589 villages, 81 of which are prone to hillsides (including protected forest). In addition to original potential debris flow torrent communities, disaster‐resistant communities have been established under the guidance of Soil and Water Conservation Bureau (SWCB), Council of Agriculture in Taiwan; Changhua County Government also plans to establish disaster‐resistant communities in other hillside communities. This study proposes an expert questionnaire to determine the potential for a hillside disaster and uses an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and an analytical network process (ANP) to determine the weights of factors that pertain to potential disasters in hillside communities so that these communities can become resistant to disasters.
Highlights
Disaster-resistant communities have been actively promoted in various countries, with an emphasis on residents’ interaction and participation to encourage disaster prevention with the aim of promoting a national disaster prevention program
Communities utilize existing resources to increase their ability to help themselves after disasters, using disaster reduction and prevention methods to reduce the impact of disasters on their communities. e Taiwanese government has a strategy to “practice the community disaster prevention system, promoting community disaster prevention, guiding communities to establish disaster prevention concepts, and organizing civil rescue teams to cultivate the disaster emergency response ability” in the interests of community security
For hillside villages with hillside disaster potential, the locations where there is potential for a hillside disaster, and roads and built-up areas that have a potential for a disaster, the factors are identified and their weights are summed [9, 10] to determine the potential for a hillside disaster. e disaster potentials are used to determine the hillside communities that are disaster resistant. is allows the Changhua County Government to establish hillside disaster-resistant communities
Summary
Disaster-resistant communities have been actively promoted in various countries, with an emphasis on residents’ interaction and participation to encourage disaster prevention with the aim of promoting a national disaster prevention program. E evaluation of the practices that are required for a disaster-resistant community project or the cost and benefit analysis in terms of input and output is a matter for continued study. Using governmental education and disaster prevention wargaming, villages with potential hazards in Changhua County, Taiwan, are classified in terms of awareness of disaster prevention and the response to disasters. The results on disaster potential, historical experience with disasters, community vitality, and residents’ willingness to cooperate are used to determine the factors that affect disasters in various regions. Using an expert questionnaire survey, the evaluation items and factors for hillside communities are classified, and “potential,” “hazard,” and “vulnerability” are the key elements that are used to determine the disaster potential for a community. Is allows the Changhua County Government to establish hillside disaster-resistant communities For hillside villages with hillside disaster potential, the locations where there is potential for a hillside disaster, and roads and built-up areas (including public facilities) that have a potential for a disaster, the factors are identified and their weights are summed [9, 10] to determine the potential for a hillside disaster. e disaster potentials are used to determine the hillside communities that are disaster resistant. is allows the Changhua County Government to establish hillside disaster-resistant communities
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