Abstract
The cases of abnormal climate such as torrential heavy rain, storm, tidal wave, and drought have been more often observed due to climate changes caused by global warming. Particularly, localized heavy rain causes frequent flooding inside a city. It takes many lives and damages property and even threatens the safety of the residents in a flood risk. Nonetheless, the disaster countermeasures currently in use is nothing more than a code of conduct and even that is not well informed. Therefore, it can be said that disaster response system is not in place properly. Considering this current situation, the present study carried out a survey related to flood damage and found out that the residents in the areas vulnerable to flood have the poor awareness of disaster prevention and also disaster emergency system is insufficient. Therefore, this study was aimed to propose a guideline to water disaster prevention system by conducting a survey to know who citizens are aware of disaster response system.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 39247-39252 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | International Journal of Applied Engineering Research |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 18 |
| State | Published - 1 Sep 2015 |
Keywords
- Consciousness survey
- Evacuation route
- Flood
- Shelter
- Water disaster
