Linkage Between the Environment and Individual Resilience to Urban Flooding: A Case Study of Shenzhen, China.

ABSTRACT: Resilience is widely accepted as the capacities implemented to manage climate change. Exploring how individual resilience can be enhanced to better prepare residents for natural disasters, such as urban flooding, is therefore necessary. Environmental cognitions that provide psychological and physiological benefits to people by adding motivation to interact with the place are factors influencing people's resilience-oriented behaviors but have largely been ignored in existing research. As such, this study establishes a framework for the concept of individual resilience to urban flooding. Gongming, a sub-district of Shenzhen, China, is considered the case area wherein individual resilience and its environmental determinants are evaluated. Through hierarchical linear modeling, the environmenta

SUBMITTER: Song J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6678611 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature