Community Awareness on Landslide Disaster: ‘Experience of Nagaland’

2018 ◽  
pp. 361-371
Author(s):  
Supongsenla Jamir ◽  
N. U. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Community Awareness ◽  
Disaster Experience ◽  
Landslide Disaster

scholarly journals Landslide Disaster Preparedness For Residents in Nyarumkop Village Singkawang Timur

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Evinna Cinda Hendriana ◽  
Buyung Buyung ◽  
Slamat Fitriyadi ◽  
Mariyam Mariyam ◽  
Nindy Citroresmi Prihatiningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Landslide Disaster

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 18.1pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';" lang="EN-US">ABSTRACT</span></em></strong><strong><em></em></strong></p><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US">The purpose ofthis activity is to educate the community to know the symptoms of landslides and increase community awareness early on and provide assistance to the community to identify layers of soil or rocks that have the potential to cause landslides around residential areas using geoelectric. To achieve this goal, landslide disaster preparedness counseling activities are carried out for residents of Nyarumkop Singkawang Timur Village. The number of participants of the activity as many as 20 heads of families. Counseling activities carried out include coordination with the East Singkawang Sub-District and local RT, material briefings, simulation of landslide disaster mitigation, identification of potential landslides, and follow-up activities. The results of this community pengabdian    activities can be described as follows: The community has been aware of the symptoms of landslides and there is an increase in public awareness early on. The community has also known the layers of soil or rocks that have the potential to cause landslides around their residential areas, namely limestone layers with layers of the top of the field of derailment in the form of clay, clay sand, and sandstone that can store water content</span></em><table class="MsoNormalTable" style="margin-left: 5.4pt; border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes; height: 81.45pt;"><td style="width: 290.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; height: 81.45pt;" valign="top" width="387"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 18.1pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';" lang="EN-US">ABSTRACT</span></em></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></em></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 18.1pt; text-align: justify;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" lang="EN-US">The purpose ofthis activity is to educate the community to know the symptoms of landslides and increase community awareness early on and provide assistance to the community to identify layers of soil or rocks that have the potential to cause landslides around residential areas using geoelectric. To achieve this goal, landslide disaster preparedness counseling activities are carried out for residents of Nyarumkop Singkawang Timur Village. The number of participants of the activity as many as 20 heads of families. Counseling activities carried out include coordination with the East Singkawang Sub-District and local RT, material briefings, simulation of landslide disaster mitigation, identification of potential landslides, and follow-up activities. The results of this community pengabdian<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>activities can be described as follows: The community has been aware of the symptoms of landslides and there is an increase in public awareness early on. The community has also known the layers of soil or rocks that have the potential to cause landslides around their residential areas, namely limestone layers with layers of the top of the field of derailment in the form of clay, clay sand, and sandstone that can store water content.</span></em><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></em></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

THE ROLE OF EDUCATION ON DISASTER PREPAREDNESS CASE STUDY OF 2012 INDIAN OCEAN EARTHQUAKES ON THAILAND’S

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raya Muttarak ◽  
Wiraporn Pothisiri
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Disaster Experience ◽  
Individual Household ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Individual

In this paper we investigate how well residents of the Andaman coast in Phang Nga province, Thailand, are prepared for earthquakes and tsunami. It is hypothesized that formal education can promote disaster preparedness because education enhances individual cognitive and learning skills, as well as access to information. A survey was conducted of 557 households in the areas that received tsunami warnings following the Indian Ocean earthquakes on 11 April 2012. Interviews were carried out during the period of numerous aftershocks, which put residents in the region on high alert. The respondents were asked what emergency preparedness measures they had taken following the 11 April earthquakes. Using the partial proportional odds model, the paper investigates determinants of personal disaster preparedness measured as the number of preparedness actions taken. Controlling for village effects, we find that formal education, measured at the individual, household, and community levels, has a positive relationship with taking preparedness measures. For the survey group without past disaster experience, the education level of household members is positively related to disaster preparedness. The findings also show that disaster related training is most effective for individuals with high educational attainment. Furthermore, living in a community with a higher proportion of women who have at least a secondary education increases the likelihood of disaster preparedness. In conclusion, we found that formal education can increase disaster preparedness and reduce vulnerability to natural hazards.

RECONSIDERING THE WAQF: Traditional Mechanism of Urban Regeneration in Historic Muslim Cities

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Haysam Nour
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
It Use ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Cultural Aspect ◽  
Basic Issue ◽  
Key Issues

Through the last century, historic Muslim Cities witnessed significant decay. The level of decay, while a number of those cities were inscribed in the WHL, created an international urge to intervene. With very limited exceptions, modern interventions did not create an obvious impact due to common factors: inefficient management, fragmented responsibilities on administrative levels, weak legislations, and lack of community awareness, participation, and absence of integrated mechanisms. However, those factors are mostly of operational nature. This paper sheds light on a socio-cultural aspect of deterioration through inquiring about a basic issue: “How was the historic Muslim city maintained for centuries?”The key answer refers always to “the Waqf”. Although its nature and role are quite different now, the Waqf institution was the main player in urban regeneration in Muslim cities until early 1900. How did it use to work? Within which value reference? In addition, what was the position of the local community in the process? Those are the key issues discussed in the paper arguing that reconsidering this traditional mechanism might add another layer to the understanding of the complexity of Muslim cities and accordingly, might lead to different approaches in future interventions.

The Bridge Program: A Model for Delivering Mental Health Services to Asian Americans through Primary Care

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongtu Chen ◽  
Elizabeth Kramer ◽  
Teddy Chen ◽  
Jianping Chen ◽  
Henry Chung
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Primary Care Providers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Bridge Program ◽  
Community Awareness

Compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, Asian Americans have the lowest utilization of mental health services. Contributing factors include extremely low community awareness about mental health, a lack of culturally competent Asian American mental health professionals, and severe stigma associated with mental illness. This manuscript describes an innovative program that bridges the gap between primary care and mental health services. The Bridge Program, cited in the supplement to the Surgeon’s General’s Report on Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity as a model for delivery of mental health services through primary care; (2) to improve capacity by enhancing the skills of primary care providers to identify and treat mental disorders commonly seen in primary care; and (3) to raise community awareness by providing health education on mental health and illness. Results are presented and the potential for replication is addressed.

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