英文摘要 |
This study constructs a framework of social vulnerability index of slope-land disasters, and assesses the idea of social vulnerability by analyzing a group of factors classified by the framework of SVIoL. The number of landslide disasters increased significantly after the Chi-chi earthquake, putting residents of mountain areas at higher risk of debris flow or landslide. The government has revised numerous engineering design over the past decade to reduce the risk of slope-land disasters. However, weather events still cause enormous damage. For example, Typhoon Morakot caused the heavy rainfall breaking the historical records, and resulted in 1,690 landslide/debris flow events, 130 broken roads, 196 damaged bridges and 699 deaths. This disaster revealed that disaster management needs go beyond merely evaluating physical vulnerability or building engineering facilities, and that social vulnerability index assessment is a potential means of improving disaster management and catastrophe resistance. The framework of SVI has four important aspects attributed by previous studies: 1) maximum loss of household property, 2) environmental engineering, 3) resistance to slopeland disasters, and 4) self-recovery ability. Pareto ranking (PR) analysis was applied to integrate the four aspects, and to rank the intensity of SV scores of each town, where higher ranks indicated greater vulnerability. Pingtung and Taitung counties have the highest number of towns assigned to the highest rank, while Chiayi City and Taoyuan County have the highest percentage of towns with the highest PR. Furthermore, after overlapping the historical landslide hotspots with the SVI layer, the most risky places are Shueili, Shini and Puli in Nantou County, Jianshi in Hsinchu County, and Taian in Miaoli County. SVIoL can help not just local governments but also central government understanding the disaster vulnerability of different places, and adjust their disaster prevention, response and recovery strategies accordingly. |