Abstract
Post-disaster relocations have both positive and negative impacts on host communities. Receiving the host community's willingness to host the new community is essential to ensure integration and the sustainability of the new resettlement. This “willingness” is influenced by a variety of factors which have not been adequately studied by researchers and policymakers. This study, therefore, investigates the latent variables influencing a host community's decision to accept or reject disaster-induced resettlements. The study employed a survey approach utilising a questionnaire that contained 70 factors influencing host communities' perspectives on resettlements. A randomly selected 250 respondents from host communities were asked to indicate the factors that influence their level of agreement to be the host for displaced parties based on a 1–5 Likert-scale. The responses were analysed using the factor analysis: principal component analysis (PCA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) respectively. The PCA extracted 16 components which influence a host community's decision to accept/reject displaced communities (which account for nearly 70% of the total variance). The three most significant components were the impact on livelihoods and access to resources (total variance of 13%), political power and human wellbeing (9%), access to public services and social security (7%). The EFA revealed 58 sub-latent variables consisting of a majority of rejection factors (90%) with very few influences to accept displaced communities. The study's findings can be used by authorities and policymakers who design and implement post-disaster relocation programmes in understanding a host community's viewpoints and their involvement in making the resettlements successful and sustainable.
Highlights
The recovery and re-development phases play significant roles in modern disaster management strategies [1]
The first four components individually account for a total variance greater than 5% and, cumulatively, over 36% which indicates that these components significantly influence the acceptance or rejection to be the host for disaster-induced resettlement (DIR)
The first component: livelihoods and access to resources, which ac counts for the highest percentage of the total variance (13%) in influ encing a host community to accept or reject DIRs, has resulted in 6 sublatent variables
Summary
The recovery and re-development phases (or in other words reha bilitation and reconstruction phases) play significant roles in modern disaster management strategies [1]. 2. Factors influencing acceptance or rejection when requested to be the host for post-disaster resettlement projects in developing countries. Often many of the relocated community members have significantly improved their living condi tions, asset bases, and commercial links as a result of their displacement [20,21] This perceived inequality creates tension as groups in the host community see themselves as deserving of external assistance [20]. An extensive set of latent variables were identified from the literature containing both positive and negative influences in the willingness to accept IDPs and their resettlement by host communities
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