Conducting Community-Capacity-Based Evaluation Framework of Importance and Performance for Earthquake Disaster Management

Abstract

The frequency and intensity of natural disasters have been increasing in recent decades, especially earthquakes are one of the causes of major natural disasters. Improving community adaptive against disasters based on community capacity has gradually become an effective means of coping with disaster risks and improve residents' well-being. However, few studies have explored the correlation between community adaptive to disasters and awareness of disaster preparedness. In the study, we establish an evaluation adaptive framework of development community earthquake disaster management (CEDM) based on community-capacity and their perspectives under importance-performance analysis (IPA) method in the eastern Taiwan, and identifies the factors. Features that affect the differentiation of community residents' participation on CEDM program are divided into four dimensions: 1) risk; 2) learn; 3) cope; and 4) change, revealing the degree of disaster prevention ability and awareness of urban and suburban residents, as well as residents' satisfaction with the government's community disaster prevention measures. The higher the residents' awareness of disaster prevention, the stronger the ability to adapt to disasters; the higher the ability of the government and non-profit organizations to cooperate with the community to deal with disasters, the stronger the community's ability to manage disasters. The research contributes a novel conceptual framework and the findings point to directions for the sustainable development of CEDM project management in Taiwan.