Analysis Of Flood Disaster Vulnerability And Peasant Households’ Demand For Disaster Reduction In Jianghan Plain

Natural disasters have always been accompanied with the production and living conditions of the people. And with the accelerated pace of the industrialization and urbanization of human society, ecological environment degradation becomes worse, and agricultural natural disasters becomes more frequent. Flood is just one of the most serious natural disasters, which swept through the most part of China in1998and spread to31provinces(autonomous regions and municipalities) in2010, leading to tremendous damage of people’ production and life. The high frequency and loss of the flood appeals to many experts to study the vulnerability of flood disaster. Flood disaster is the result of the combined effect of natural disaster and socio-economic vulnerability, so it would be more effective to study the natural disaster and vulnerability together. Therefore, assessing the flood disaster vulnerability of agriculture and analyzing the difference and connection of the mitigation needs in Jianghan plain. We need to know what lead to the differences. Then giving a theoretical reference to the hence of recovery and the reduction of the flood disaster vulnerability.Flood disaster, which is the natural disaster that has plagued the Jianghan Plain for a long time, is selected as the study object in this paper. Firstly, the use of the literature review method and the summarized statement of the study of the vulnerability and farmer’ mitigation demand can establish the theoretical foundation for the paper’ writing analysis later on. Secondly, based on the advance of domestic and foreign vulnerability study, build a vulnerability assessment index system and evaluation model, and use comprehensive evaluation method to conduct an empirical study for the flood disaster’ vulnerability in Jianghan Plain. Thirdly, different degrees of the vulnerability in one region need different mitigation measures, and then compare how farmers choose the mitigation measures in the condition of different vulnerability degrees. Fourth, building disaster prevention facilities is the common need and the firstly needed mitigation measure among regions. This chapter uses this measure as the study object, and builds a binary logistics regression model to analyze and find the main factors which affect farmers’ choice of mitigation measures in Jianghan Plain. The study found these factors, such as the incomes of the household, the proportion of the agricultural income in the total farmer household income, the quantity and the quality of the field hold by the family, and the farmers’ understanding degree to the mitigation measures have a significant effect on the farmers’ demand for mitigation measures. Finally, based on the analysis of flood disaster vulnerability and the influencing factor for farmers’ demand for mitigation measures, the farmer-oriented implementation framework of mitigation measure is put forward, to drive farmers to participate in disaster mitigation and reduce disaster vulnerability.