A Study on the Role of Social Capital in Determining Community Residents’ Adaptive Behaviour to Climate Change: A Case Study of Donggang, Linbian and Jiadong

• Main Authors: Lu, Yu-Ting, 盧禹廷
• Other Authors: HUNG, HUNG-CHIH
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02350495948021236746

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 都市計劃研究所 === 99 === Early August 2009 Morakot Typhoon, bringing heavy rains hit central and southern Taiwan, caused serious economic losses, but awakened people's awareness of disaster prevention. Hence, this research selected worst-hit town, Donggang, Linbian and Jiadong as the main study area. This study will apply social capital to explore climate change adaptation of community residents. The main purpose is to construct the framework between social capital and adaptation and become the foundation of future research. Therefore, this research content, clarifying the basic definition of social capital and adaptation from literature review constructs the framework between social capital and adaptation. Finally, the operation of case study and binary logit model test various elements of social capital of framework how to affect adaptation as well as the role under the influence of climate change. From the study result, the information sources of electronic media and government are the main significant variables in the pre-disaster adjustment model. A good disaster warning system can quickly pass the flood messages in the station of disaster preparedness to encourage residents to take pre-disaster adjustment actions. Furthermore, immediate help and trust in government are the main significant variables in the post-disaster adjustment model, but information source and trust are significant variables in the post-disaster long-standing model. Hence, the increase of pre-disaster local governments’ awareness and assist as well as the strengthen of central government’s speed of disaster relief can promote residents to take post-disaster positive coping behaviors in the response phase. Finally, on the whole, social trsst are significant variables of social capital in the pre-disaster and post-disaster model. How to strengthen the trust between individual, public and private sectors, will depend on long-term communication and cordination.