Assessing household risk mitigation to flooding in lowland area of Palembang
Working Paper Series No. 1, January 2015
This research aims to build a concept of disaster resilient communities in Palembang, Indonesia based on their current preparedness. In order to achieve this, the level of community structural and non-structural mitigation in Palembang needs to be assessed. The paper follows this assessment up by a discussion of literature review of how preparedness is related with resilience.
To achieve urban development agenda, there have been efforts in urban development practices. One of the most common effort is converting existing protected areas into built-up areas. Consequently, this effort is increasing the occurrences of flood hazard. Based on the data, people are frequently subjected of to this hazard. Fortunately, this disaster risk can be minimized with the active participation of community members. Their capacity can be improved by a set of disaster risk mitigation efforts. The more risk mitigation efforts they can prepare, the more resilient they are.