A Comparative Study of the Resilience of Urban and Rural under Climate Change-A Case Study of Chiayi County

Abstract

In recent years the impact of climate change has caused critical risks to urban and rural systems how to mitigate the damage caused by extreme climate events has become a topic of considerable concern in various countries The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) mentioned in the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai Framework) that improving community resilience will help to deal with the harm caused by climate change However most of the previous research on resilience have only focused solely on urban or rural only and have failed to identify the differences in resilience between urban and rural In fact if we can understand the difference in resilience between urban and rural in the face of climate change it will provide planners with better planning strategies or resource allocation Therefore in this study the resilience index is firstly prepared through literature review and then the resilience features were extract through the principal component analysis method Then the five resilience indexes were analyze by the spatial autocorrelation Finally the binary logistic regression is use to compare the resilience of urban and rural

Date of Award	2020
Original language	English
Supervisor	Hsueh-Sheng Chang (Supervisor)