1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Data Source and Methods
3.1 Data Source
Sample county | Sample town | Sample village | Number of households facing disaster threats | Sampled households |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wanzhou district | Xikou | Qilin | 46 | 20 |
Yuzu | 148 | 30 | ||
Xinxiang | Longquan | 154 | 35 | |
Zhihua | 174 | 35 | ||
Yanshan | Wanshun | 47 | 20 | |
Quanshui | 128 | 35 | ||
Fengjie county | Zuyuan | Chahe | 306 | 38 |
Wushan | 364 | 40 | ||
Caoping | 438 | 40 | ||
Dashu | Guanshan | 50 | 20 | |
Shiyan | 200 | 35 | ||
Total | 2055 | 348 |
3.2 Methods
3.2.1 Selection and Definition of Model Variables
Preparedness Behavior | Frequency | Percent |
---|---|---|
Household prepared some necessary items to avoid disaster impact, such as store emergency food and water supplies, keep a working flashlight (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 42 | 12.07 |
Household learned knowledge of disaster prevention and mitigation in private (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 90 | 25.86 |
Household participated in government organized disaster-related training and drills, such as escape drills (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 29 | 8.33 |
Household made some changes to home, such as reinforcing buildings (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 24 | 6.90 |
Household purchased any kind of insurance against natural hazard-induced disasters (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 5 | 1.44 |
Code | Risk perception dimension | Descriptiona | Mean | SDb |
---|---|---|---|---|
A1 | Probability | In the next decade, there is a great possibility that a landslide will occur around your house. | 3.39 | 1.03 |
A2 | You have the constant feeling that a landslide will happen one day. | 3.53 | 1.05 | |
A3 | Compared to others’, there is a higher possibility that a landslide will attack your house. | 3.41 | 1.05 | |
A4 | There are more and more obvious signals of landslides in recent years. | 3.80 | 1.08 | |
A5 | Worry | Upon thinking about landslides, you will feel scared | 4.39 | 0.89 |
A6 | You are worried about the influence of landslides to your household and the village | 4.45 | 0.75 | |
A7 | Unknown | Once a landslide occurs, you have to resign yourself to fate | 3.50 | 1.19 |
A8 | You think that a landslide is determined by fate | 3.73 | 1.13 | |
A9 | Once a landslide comes, you feel everything is ruined | 3.43 | 1.25 | |
A10 | Controllability | Landslides are controllable through proper methods (like structural projects). | 2.78 | 1.16 |
A11 | With the mass monitoring and prevention system, you are not scared of the landslide at all | 3.67 | 0.99 | |
A12 | Despite of the uncontrollability of disaster occurrence, you still can reduce loss via proper preventions. | 3.32 | 1.10 | |
A13 | Threat | In the next decade, your house and land will be subject to disaster upon the occurrence of a landslide | 3.99 | 0.96 |
A14 | In the next decade, the safety of you and your families will be threatened upon the occurrence of a landslide | 3.98 | 0.90 |
Code | Sense of place dimension | Descriptiona | Mean | SDb |
---|---|---|---|---|
B1 | Place identity | I do not want to move from here, because I am used to the lifestyle here | 3.97 | 0.98 |
B2 | I am afraid of the disaster, but I still do not want to move away from here, because my roots are here | 3.90 | 1.12 | |
B3 | I do not think I can be separated from the village and the people in the village | 3.72 | 1.08 | |
B4 | I never thought that I would move out of the village and live in other places | 3.33 | 1.31 | |
B5 | Place dependence | I feel proud of living in this village | 3.59 | 1.10 |
B6 | Compared with other places, living in this village makes me feel more satisfied | 3.72 | 1.03 | |
B7 | My love for this village is deeper than that for anywhere else | 3.74 | 1.01 | |
B8 | Place attachment | When going out, I always think of the village where I live | 4.32 | 0.73 |
B9 | Unless going out to do some errands, I usually prefer to stay in the village | 4.06 | 0.79 | |
B10 | I feel that I can really be myself in the village | 4.27 | 0.75 |
3.2.2 The Models
3.2.3 Research Hypotheses
4 Results
4.1 Descriptive Statistics of the Variables
Category | Variable | Measure | Mean | SD |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dependent variables | Y1 | Household prepared some necessary items (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 0.12 | 0.33 |
Y2 | Household learned knowledge of disaster prevention and mitigation (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 0.26 | 0.44 | |
Y3 | Household participated in government organized disaster-related training and drills (0 = no, 1 = yes). | 0.08 | 0.28 | |
Y4 | Household made some changes to home (0 = no, 1 = yes). | 0.07 | 0.25 | |
Y5 | Household purchased any kind of insurance against natural hazard-induced disasters (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 0.01 | 0.12 | |
Y6 | Total number of adopted disaster preparedness behaviors | 0.54 | 0.93 | |
Risk perception | Probability | Score for perception of the possibility of a landslide (1–100) | 51.62 | 17.36 |
Worry | Score for worry about landslides (1–100) | 73.12 | 15.39 | |
Unknown | Score for perception of the unknown of a landslide (1–100) | 58.67 | 17.70 | |
Controllability | Score for perception of controllability in a landslide (1–100) | 52.26 | 18.19 | |
Threat | Score for perception of threat of a landslide (1–100) | 62.14 | 14.96 | |
Sense of place | Place dependence | Score for place dependence (1–100) | 59.68 | 17.53 |
Place identity | Score for place identity (1–100) | 67.81 | 15.27 | |
Place attachment | Score for place attachment (1–100) | 69.88 | 16.52 | |
Individual and household characteristics | Education | Years of education (years) | 4.98 | 3.26 |
Experience | Landslide has been experienced (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 0.88 | 0.33 | |
Gender | Gender (0 = male,1 = female) | 0.36 | 0.48 | |
Age | Age (years) | 57.66 | 10.82 | |
Income | Family cash income (Yuanb) | 44,224 | 55,542 | |
Financial help | Number of persons available for assistance when in urgent need of money | 4.63 | 3.28 | |
Loss | Economic loss from a landslide (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 0.68 | 0.47 | |
Distance | Distance to the hazard site (< 10 m = 1, else = 0) | 0.26 | 0.44 | |
Information | Communication channels to obtain landslide informationc | 1.59 | 0.78 | |
Member | Number of family members | 4.21 | 1.67 | |
Child | Children < 18 (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 0.59 | 0.49 | |
Old | Older people > 65 (0 = no, 1 = yes) | 0.44 | 0.50 | |
Housing material | Housing material (1 = concrete, else = 0) | 0.77 | 0.42 |
Number | Frequency | Percent | Cumulative frequency |
---|---|---|---|
0 | 234 | 67.24 | 67.24 |
1 | 62 | 17.82 | 85.06 |
2 | 35 | 10.06 | 95.11 |
3 | 10 | 2.87 | 97.99 |
4 | 7 | 2.01 | 100 |
Total | 348 | 100 |
4.2 Model Results
Variable | Logit Models | Tobit model | ||||
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Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | Model 5 | Model 6 | |
Probability | 0.03*** | 0.03*** | 0.05*** | 0.02* | 0.11 | 0.03*** |
(0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.08) | (0.01) | |
Worry | − 0.03** | − 0.00 | 0.01 | − 0.02 | − 0.05 | − 0.01 |
(0.01) | (0.01) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.05) | (0.01) | |
Unknown | 0.02* | − 0.02** | − 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.31*** | − 0.01 |
(0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.11) | (0.01) | |
Controllability | − 0.01 | − 0.03*** | − 0.01 | 0.00 | − 0.31** | − 0.02** |
(0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.02) | (0.13) | (0.01) | |
Threat | 0.02 | 0.03** | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.32*** | 0.03** |
(0.02) | (0.01) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.12) | (0.01) | |
Place dependence | 0.02** | 0.02** | 0.02 | 0.04*** | 0.04 | 0.02*** |
(0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.02) | (0.03) | (0.01) | |
Place identity | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | − 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.01 |
(0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.06) | (0.01) | |
Place attachment | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | − 0.00 | 0.24*** | 0.02 |
(0.01) | (0.01) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.09) | (0.01) | |
Education | 0.03 | 0.10** | 0.20*** | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.09** |
(0.06) | (0.05) | (0.08) | (0.08) | (0.31) | (0.04) | |
Experiencec | − 0.15 | 0.44 | 0.41 | 1.85* | 0.00 | 0.74 |
(0.61) | (0.50) | (0.61) | (1.12) | (0.00) | (0.52) | |
Genderc | − 0.49 | − 0.20 | − 0.28 | − 0.17 | 5.43*** | − 0.31 |
(0.38) | (0.32) | (0.44) | (0.59) | (1.95) | (0.29) | |
Age | − 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.01 | − 0.03 | − 0.15 | 0.01 |
(0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.15) | (0.02) | |
ln (income) | 0.00 | 0.02 | − 0.03 | − 0.31* | 3.25** | − 0.09 |
(0.19) | (0.13) | (0.20) | (0.18) | (1.46) | (0.12) | |
Financial help | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.03 | − 0.09 | − 2.27*** | 0.03 |
(0.07) | (0.04) | (0.07) | (0.08) | (0.84) | (0.05) | |
Lossc | 0.39 | 0.75** | − 0.24 | − 0.26 | − 0.58 | 0.51 |
(0.47) | (0.38) | (0.51) | (0.54) | (1.41) | (0.36) | |
Distancec | 1.04*** | 0.75** | 0.40 | 0.66 | 6.44 | 0.73** |
(0.38) | (0.30) | (0.38) | (0.50) | (4.04) | (0.30) | |
Official informationb | − 0.22 | 0.89** | 0.42 | 2.05*** | 3.01* | 0.87** |
(0.52) | (0.35) | (0.47) | (0.59) | (1.80) | (0.36) | |
All informationb | 0.45 | 0.36 | 0.57 | 1.48** | 0.00 | 0.84** |
(0.48) | (0.40) | (0.58) | (0.69) | (0.00) | (0.37) | |
Member | − 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.27 | 0.41* | − 3.16** | 0.16 |
(0.15) | (0.12) | (0.21) | (0.21) | (1.51) | (0.12) | |
Childc | 0.72 | 0.11 | − 0.41 | − 0.47 | 9.90** | 0.18 |
(0.52) | (0.37) | (0.65) | (0.69) | (4.14) | (0.37) | |
Oldc | 0.02 | 0.18 | − 0.42 | − 0.94* | 0.87 | − 0.21 |
(0.44) | (0.33) | (0.49) | (0.53) | (3.67) | (0.32) | |
Housing materialc | 0.85 | − 0.62* | 0.10 | 1.67* | 0.00 | − 0.04 |
(0.61) | (0.35) | (0.52) | (0.87) | (0.00) | (0.32) | |
Constant | − 5.78* | − 7.00*** | − 12.40*** | − 7.07* | − 77.36*** | − 7.39*** |
(3.11) | (2.45) | (3.37) | (3.63) | (28.16) | (2.28) | |
LR chi2(χ2) | 41.85 | 57.09 | 34.64 | 60.58 | 0.11 | 3.71 |
Prob > chi2(χ2) | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.00 |
Pseudo R2 | 0.16 | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.27 | 0.49 | 0.09 |