Assessment of mountain village communities' resistance and adaption to natural hazards based on their socio-economic conditions

The study collected secondary data and conducted a questionnaire survey at the targeted mountain communities in Changhua county, Nantou county and Taichung city in central Taiwan and Kaohsiung city and Pingtung county in south Taiwan to explore the residents' perception, avoidance behaviors and adaptation strategies for climate change and natural hazard. In addition, the study evaluated the socio-economic vulnerabilities of these five cities. 23 representative indicators were selected from the definition of vulnerability and adjusted by entropy weight. The difference among these five city and county was compared and the influential indicators is selected by ranking.

The data of this dataset are the results of the 108-year science and technology project, “Assessment of mountain village communities’ resistance and adaption to natural hazards based on their socio-economic conditions” of the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute.