000011211 001__ 11211 000011211 005__ 20141205155847.0 000011211 04107 $$aeng 000011211 046__ $$k2008-10-12 000011211 100__ $$aOkazaki, Kenji 000011211 24500 $$aSeismic Risk Perception of People for Safer Housing 000011211 24630 $$n14.$$pProceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering 000011211 260__ $$b 000011211 506__ $$arestricted 000011211 520__ $$2eng$$aThe majority of earthquake-caused deaths are instances of people being killed by their own houses. It is thus crucial to convince people that the investment in safer housing will eventually prove to be worthwhile. Because people base their choices regarding housing safety on their own perception of seismic risk, we conducted a field survey in 2007 in Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Turkey to better understand the seismic risk perception of residents. The survey targeted approximately 800 households in each country. Trained surveyors visited the selected houses to conduct interviews and fill in questionnaires. The questionnaire includes questions asking whether the residents think their house is safe against earthquakes, how they want to avoid the risks of damage to their house and harm to their family, and what they know about seismic retrofitting, in addition to questions about their sex, age, household income, occupation, and house-related information such as floor area, structural type, cost, and ownership. This study analyses how people perceive seismic risk, how such perception is associated with demographic variables and housing conditions, and how their risk perception affects their behaviour towards earthquake-safe housing measures. The findings will help stakeholders develop disaster risk management policies and initiatives that take into account public risk perception, disseminate technologies for safer housing to communities, and convince people that investment for safety is worthwhile. 000011211 540__ $$aText je chráněný podle autorského zákona č. 121/2000 Sb. 000011211 653__ $$aearthquakes, houses, risk perception, disaster reduction 000011211 7112_ $$a14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering$$cBejing (CN)$$d2008-10-12 / 2008-10-17$$gWCEE15 000011211 720__ $$aOkazaki, Kenji$$iIlki, Alper$$iAhmad, Najib$$iKandel, Ram Chandra$$iRahayu, Harkunti P. 000011211 8560_ $$ffischerc@itam.cas.cz 000011211 8564_ $$s177357$$uhttps://invenio.itam.cas.cz/record/11211/files/S18-019.pdf$$yOriginal version of the author's contribution as presented on CD, Paper ID: S18-019. 000011211 962__ $$r9324 000011211 980__ $$aPAPER