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can be used to track the post-disaster recovery overtime and identify least improved sector and area. We learn that
post different degree of damage and sector has different recovery trend. Therefore, different recovery policy might
needed.

57 Why do people behave towards the environment in the way they do? Results of a
qualitative study in South Sumatra, Indonesia

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Marpaleni Marpaleni , Gouranga Dasvarma , Udoy Saikia
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9. Population and Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Abstract

A survey of 490 household heads from five of 17 districts of South Sumatra, representing the eastern, northern,
western, southern and central regions showed that the majority exhibited environmentally unfriendly behaviour
(Marpaleni. 2019. Doctoral thesis, Flinders University, Australia). To unravel their causes, 10 focus group discussions
were held with household heads living in those five regions but not selected in the survey. The focus groups,
containing 10 households each were gender-balanced and socio-economically homogeneous. The
discussions were recorded, transcribed ad verbatim in Bahasa Indonesia, translated into English, cross checked
and analysed by salient themes as recommended by Braun and Clarke (2006)Weblink2. The analysis revealed the
following attitudes relating to poor environmental behaviour: “it is all right to copy others’ environmentally
unfriendly activities if socially acceptable”; “somebody else will do it”; “environmental protection/ neglect is an
individual matter, and no one should reprimand others”; “certain groups exhibit specific environmental behaviour
(stereo-typing)”; “being environmentally friendly is inconvenient, complex, impractical, inefficient,
uncomfortable”; “it is not urgent yet - unfriendly activity is a small matter with little environmental impact”. Barriers
to good environmental behaviour include economic constraints, lack of public facilities, poor knowledge and
awareness about good environmental behaviour and weak law enforcement.

1495 Extreme weather events and population displacements in the world

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Kaoru Kakinuma , Michael Puma , Yukiko Hirabayashi , Masahiro Tanoue , Emerson Baptista , Shinjiro Kanae
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1 Shanghai University, Shanghai, China. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Columbia University, NY, USA.
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4 Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan.
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9. Population and Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Abstract

Assessments of climate change impacts on human security are one of the urgent issues in the world. Especially,
extreme whether events such as floods often cause population displacements that force people to change their

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