For effective water-related disaster management, it is important to exercise well-balanced structural and non-structural measures. However especially in developing countries, while strengthening of disaster preparedness at local community/municipality level is critically important, established disaster preparedness plans or future targets for improvement rarely exist. Therefore this research intends to develop a well-balanced set of flood disaster preparedness indices that can be applied as commonly and as widely as possible to various localities in the world. Examination of the indices, field survey to communities in the Metro Manila, Philippines, Ubon Ratchathani and Hat Yai, Thailand, and Hanoi, Vietnam including creation of indices diagram, and analyses of the field survey results were proceeded. This research is also one of the projects for Working Group of Hydrology of Typhoon Committees (UN/ESCAP and WMO) from 2009 to 2012. |