Climate Change Perception and Local Risk Awareness for Sustainable Community-Based Disaster Risk Management

Abstract

Community perception of climate change is a factor in increasing local awareness of climate disaster risk. This encourages more disaster risk reduction actions by the communities themselves, and thus, provides a driver for sustainable community disaster risk management (DRM) initiatives. Using these hypotheses, this chapter assesses whether the communities’ climate change perceptions, awareness of climate hazardous risk, and subsequent actions on DRR enable local DRM capacity to reduce the increasing climate disaster risk. The study conducts household surveys with an original questionnaire in four communities in Cartago City, Costa Rica.

Citation

(2014), "Climate Change Perception and Local Risk Awareness for Sustainable Community-Based Disaster Risk Management", Local Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Climate: Perspective from Central America (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 17), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 121-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-726220140000017021