Response Of Land Subsidence In Disaster Risk Management Case Study

2. Response of land subsidence in Disaster Risk Management

Disaster Risk Management (DRM) refers to a framework of reducing disaster risk by including management perspective that combines prevention, mitigation, and preparedness with the response. Its purpose is to reduce possible factors that cause risk and to prepare response to it (Baas et al. 2008). It includes action taken by actors, such as public authorities, communities, civil societies, and private sectors, before (pre-disaster), during (disaster), and after a disaster (post-disaster) as a cycle.

Regarding to the land subsidence, most of the responds and efforts taken in pre-disaster phase and some of them are in post-disaster. The pre-disaster phase includes risk identification, risk mitigation, and preparedness (Freeman et al. 2003). Its aim is to strengthen households and community’s capacity and resilience in protecting their livelihoods (Baas et al. 2008). In pre-disaster phase, public authorities’ roles are to respond and mitigate the risk. The response contains the action to forecast

The awareness is the knowledge that is gathered from an interaction between people and environment, which must be kept and be updated to problems (Parkash 2013). It is crucial for disaster management successful (Chopra and Venkatesh 2015) because it can be used to assess degree to which public authorities and land users recognize existing problems. The awareness can be identified from government and parliament’s initiative to design subsidence-related plans (Stork and Sneed 2002). The awareness consists of four components: awareness of living in a risky area, awareness of the status of the land subsidence, awareness of ways to solve the problems, and awareness of action to be taken to prevent upcoming problems. The land users must be seen as active actors in order to increase their awareness on current and exact