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The perceptions of social responsibility for community resilience to flooding: the impact of past experience, age, gender and ethnicity

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posted on 2023-07-26, 14:03 authored by Robby Soetanto, Aaron Mullins, Nebil Achour
Community resilience to flooding depends, to a large extent, on the participation of community members to take more responsibility for enhancing their own resilience. The perception of social responsibility (SR) which is argued to be one of the antecedents influencing individual’s willingness to undertake resilient behaviours can significantly contribute to community resilience through individual and collective actions. Understanding of factors influencing the perceptions of SR of individuals within community might help with developing strategies to increase the perceptions of SR. This research explores perceptions of SR in relation to flooding for householders and local businesses and establishes their relationships with experience of flooding and demographic factors of age, gender and ethnicity. The data were obtained via a questionnaire survey of three communities in Birmingham and one community in South East London, UK, three with experience of flooding and one without. A total of 414 responses were received and used in the multiple regression analysis. The analysis identified ‘experience of flooding’, ‘age’ and ‘South Asian’ ethnic group as significant variables, suggesting that older individuals from South Asian ethnic groups with previous experience of flooding are likely to be more socially responsible than others without these attributes.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

86

Issue number

3

Page range

1105-1126

Publication title

Natural Hazards

ISSN

1573-0840

Publisher

Springer

File version

  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2017-02-20

Legacy creation date

2017-02-20

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Medical Science (until September 2018)

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