Integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in High Risk Settlements – a Case Study of Taiwan

Tsai, Chia-En and Chen, Tzu-Ling (2020) Integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in High Risk Settlements – a Case Study of Taiwan. SHAPING URBAN CHANGE – Livable City Regions for the 21st Century. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2020, 25th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 459-467. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

The accelerated pace of climate change in today’s global world has intensified the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Structural engineering measures are the common ways to cope with disasters. However, with the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme disaster events, the general engineering design standards could not stand with severe disasters. Non-structural engineering measures are the alternative including zoning and insurance. In fact, resettlement or relocation is the possible approach to relocate people from high risk areas to relative safer places. Nevertheless, such relocation might destroy the original living context and livelihood thoroughly. In the other hand, traditional ecology knowledge is the long lived knowledge inherited from ancestor. Traditional ecological knowledge could become a useful warning system to warn people when should retreat and when should be prepared. As a whole, the purpose is to collect possible traditional ecological knowledge in areas suffered from disasters and improve suchknowledge to become a feasible disaster mitigation approach.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: non-structural engineering measures, traditional ecological knowledge, extreme weather events, mitigation, adaptation
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Depositing User: REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited: 04 Feb 2021 14:22
Last Modified: 04 Feb 2021 14:22
URI: http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/696

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