Dynamic flood resilience typology: A systemic transitional adaptation from Peitou Plateau, Taiwan

This study incorporates the notion of “Transitional Progress” as an available scoping tool pin-pointing the human-habitat domain; the critical human resilience build-up can be identified by the site-specific and locally adapted practice as the residents’ perception and interaction within the local geographical character are examined. The assessment framework is proposed as a measurable process, followed by an adaptive cycle valuation performed for each of the scales at the different transitional stages. This resilience varies from the degree and time exposed to flood and the resident’s respective responses regarding people, community, and place; accordingly, the semi-structured interview documented respondents’ self-evaluation from the Peitou Plateau in Taipei. The aim is to determine the resilience ability as it bounces forth as determined by the interacting parts; the transitioning between states in the event of a flood disturbance to maintain functionality within the human-habitat domain.

This study ascertains that by integrating and analyzing the conditions and perception of a given community, the capacity to mitigate the risks is ascertained; building the ability to bounce forth from flood events is critical. In the Peitou plateau, the residents transition between adaptive states to maintain daily function. At the onset of and post-flood events, residents’ self-assessment on their awareness of the condition to the practices indicated the dynamic transition. This study provides an alternative method to comprehend how residents enable their flood resilience; their adaptive capacity involves a process of reducing the uncertainty and complexity of rapid urban change. The researchers ascertain that assessing the adaptive capacity is important in understanding local flood awareness; specifically, the fluctuation and dynamic shift in behavior and capacity, allowing public’s assisted measures to reference the humanhabitat domain effect in the flood resilience capacity robustness within the community.