Assessing household risk mitigation to flooding in lowland area of Palembang

Author(s)
Lubis, W., et al.
Publication language
English
Pages
19pp
Date published
01 Jan 2015
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disaster preparedness, Disasters, Floods & landslides, Urban
Countries
Indonesia

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.