PERCEPTION OF RISK AND MANAGING FLOOD DISASTER: A CASE STUDY OF RURAL COMMUNITY IN CZECH REPUBLIC

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dokbat.utb.cz/wp-content/uploads/DOKBAT2016.pdf" target="_blank" >http://dokbat.utb.cz/wp-content/uploads/DOKBAT2016.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7441/dokbat.2016.06" target="_blank" >10.7441/dokbat.2016.06</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

PERCEPTION OF RISK AND MANAGING FLOOD DISASTER: A CASE STUDY OF RURAL COMMUNITY IN CZECH REPUBLIC

Original language description

Risk is a combined outcome of hazard and vulnerability. Level of perception of risk varies with changing nature of hazards and vulnerability and impacts of risk. Perception also varies with individual/community awareness, preparedness and coping capacity with risk. Therefore needs of every individual/community for risk reduction are different with context, time and space. There are certain factors that influence people to involve in dealing with uncertainty and unfamiliar future. People in the Czech Republic become survivor of frequent flood disasters in last couple of decades. There is a relationship between increasing frequency of floods and climatic variations which has been widely experienced in Central European countries. As a result, conventional top-down approach of the government is slowly accepting the importance of communities and community based institutions in disaster risk reduction. Rural areas in Czech Republic are economically backward and villagers mainly depend on farming, tourism, wood processing, and food processing industries. Increasing frequency of flood disasters in last couple of decades has damaged properties and loss of lives that directly affected people living near the rivers and streams. The Research has been exploring the people perception of risk and adaptation with the changing governance system to cope with increasing frequency of flood disasters in Czech Republic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL BATA CONFERENCE FOR PH.D. STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS (DOKBAT)

ISBN

9788074545924

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

57-70

Publisher name

TOMAS BATA UNIV ZLIN

Place of publication

ZLIN

Event location

Zlin, CZECH REPUBLIC

Event date

Apr 28, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000466741400006