Area-specific practical modules on coping practices should be incorporated in curricula of disaster preparedness training to make people at risk more resilient to hazard shocks.
The same households adopted significantly and systematically more coping practices of nonagricultural diversification (z = 7.84, p < 0.000; effect size = 0.38).
No significant relation of safety-net membership, social capital, and resource index was found with coping practices, although in some cases the direction was found as expected.
Then we consider whether coping practices are affected by different elements of household asset profile (as specified in Table 1) by estimating Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression models.
For this reason, it is important to find out community perception and existing adaptation and coping practices on drinking water scarcity.
Adaptation and coping practices are therefore necessary to reduce vulnerability to drought stresses as well as to prepare for possible future extreme climate events.
We asked 360 households affected by the May 2009 tropical Cyclone Aila about their hazard perceptions, preparedness, coping practices, and socioeconomic assets.
Nonetheless, the unexplained variations indicate that a number of predictors (explanatory variables) for explaining coping practices are excluded from the model expressed through Eq. (1), although it is difficult to avoid a phenomenon like this in the process of studying a multifactorial societal system, such as the households' adoption of coping practices in response to climate hazard risks.
Much evidence indicates that this issue is more serious in the United States and in predominantly Muslim countries than it is in Europe, but educational practice should devise coping practices wherever it occurs.
The goal is to assess local people's perception and awareness of the problem, analyze the reasons for and impacts of drinking water scarcity, and identify the adaptations and coping practices of local communities.
