Household Preparedness Typology and Coping Capacity: Implications for Building Disaster Resilience in Developing Countries

This article examines flood preparedness characteristics and coping capacity of households based on the findings two research studies conducted in Thailand, discusses implications for disaster resilience building. The first study looked at household preparedness. Data were collected using a questionnaire from 1,592 randomly selected Thailand's four regions, descriptive statistics obtained to analyze characteristics. study's revealed types action, which used create typology as tool analyzing cost amount effort associated with each specific which, turn, influences households' decision adopt. was investigated second study. survey 300 three flood-prone communities Songkhla Province southern region, quota sampling method. then analyzed multiple regression technique. Both human capital increased level capacity, according findings. Based these studies, recommendations improving people's disaster-prone developing countries are proposed.