Disaster information and its dissemination means required for communities in a rural mountainous area - Questionnaire survey at Loei province in Thailand-

Abstract

In these days, rapid development of geospatial technology including web-mapping and social networks makes people possible to obtain various types of disaster information. However, it is difficult to obtain such information with a same means for people in rural mountainous areas lagging behind from urban area. In addition, it may be possible that those people cannot understand or utilize sufficiently on the information. Therefore, this report presents a result of questionnaire survey conducted to understand required disaster information and its dissemination means for local community in rural mountainous area.[This abstract is not included in the PDF]