- Title
- Influence of risk communication on intention to prepare for flood hazards in informal settlements
- Creator
- Abunyewah, Matthew; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Maund, Kim
- Relation
- 2016 6th International Conference on Building Resilience. 2016 6th International Conference on Building Resilience: Building Resilience to Address the Unexpected (Auckland, New Zealand 7-9 September, 2016) p. 917-928
- Relation
- http://buildresilience2016.nz/?page_id=439
- Publisher
- Massey University and the University of Auckland
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Flood hazards are the most frequent, recurring and destructive hazard accounting for more than half of all related fatalities and one-third of economic losses. Informal settlements suffer greatly from the consequences of flood hazards due to their physical location on flood plains, high poverty levels, overcrowding, high population growth and poor quality housing. Though, informal settlement denotes negative connotations yet their contribution towards the development of countries cannot be overlooked. This has prompted several efforts from government agencies and other development partners to improve vulnerabilities and build resilience in informal settlements. However, efforts to model informal settlements to live with flood without harm have failed due to excessive emphasis on structural measures of mitigation. More so, the action of installing in informal settlements preparedness behaviour has received little attention in literature and practice. Risk communication has gained currency in modern studies in disaster management; however, its full potential in the area of risk management has not fully been exploited especially in preparedness to flood hazards. This paper proposes a framework that informs how risk communication influences preparation intentions of informal settlements dwellers. This paper is anchored on extensive literature review of articles, chapters, archives and books written by well renowned scholars on disaster hazard preparedness, risk perception and risk communication. Selection of articles for the study was based on three major criteria, which included; 1) the article relevance to the study 2) the article is applied to risk perception, risk communication and disaster preparedness. 3) Downloaded document has citations and references of authoritative scholars in risk perception, risk communication and disaster preparedness.
- Subject
- resilience; risk communication; informal settlement; flood hazards; risk perception; vulnerabilities
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1344274
- Identifier
- uon:29376
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780473372682
- Language
- eng
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