TITLE:
Status of Community Resilience in Disaster Prone Districts of Baluchistan, Pakistan
AUTHORS:
Nasrullah, Syed Ainuddin, Khair Muhammad Kakar
KEYWORDS:
Status, Community, Resilience, Disaster, Pakistan
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Earthquake Research,
Vol.4 No.4,
November
27,
2015
ABSTRACT: Resilience to natural hazards and disasters is inevitable when linked with community. Social resilience
is the key to achieve risk reduction measures at the local levels. The objective of the paper
is to assess the community resilience of the three disaster prone districts in Balochistan. A sample
of 399 households was selected using stratified sampling with proportional allocation method.
Four components of community resilience were assessed. The results reveal that in all components
of resilience district Ziarat was more resilient compared with other two districts followed
by district Jaffarabad and Nushki. The article recommends that certain initiatives may be take in
the other districts also to enhance the community resilience to different disasters particularly by
conducting awareness complains, diversification of income sources, and physical structure to various
natural hazards.