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E-JURNAL Cognition of disaster risk in a tourism community: an agricultural heritage system perspective
Cognition of risk is the first step in reducing disaster damage and losses. In
this study, risk cognition in the Hani Rice Terraces, the core tourism
attraction in Yuanyang County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan, China, is
analyzed based on field survey and participatory geographic information
system (GIS). The results show that tourism communities have cognition of
risk; are more sensitive to hazards (especially drought); have more severe
potential damage and losses from hazards; and also have more enthusiasm
to adapt to disaster risk, when compared with a non-tourism community.
On disaster vulnerability maps, the tourism communities identified the
unique “Forest – Village – Terrace - River” landscape while the non-tourism
community only recognized the terrace and the village as the main
elements affected by hazard. Also, the tourism communities had deeper
understandings of drought, flash floods and landslide disaster risks. A
conceptual model based on “Pressure – State – Response” relationships is
put forward to explore the situation in which, in the tourism community,
terraces have a greater variety of functions and enhanced values resulting in
the spatial expansion of hazard effects.
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