Climate Change Communication: Community Knowledge and Preparedness

Abstract

Taking action against climate change and its effect has been agreed and stated in the 13th Goals of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) been declared by UNs High Level Meeting in New York on 25–27 September 2015. Thus, in the 13th goals of indicators 13.2 stated that‚ Action Index of Climate Change Indicator needs to be developed into 14 indicators”. In terms of to support the 13th Goals of SDGs, so the availability of information on disaster prone areas is an important and high demand for anticipating and handling of rehabilitation particularly of infrastructure and for the emergency response. This research is an empirical evidence and concrete experiences from pilot project in 2013 which aims to assess the urgency of creating measurement related particularly adaptation to vulnerable people links to climate change effect of which resulted by disaster in Indonesia in Padang City. The disaster risk reduction and preparedness are an effort to strengthen the resilience against unexpected disaster, therefore, the provision of Disaster Preparedness Indices would be expected to facilitate the measurement of disaster knowledge level of community related with communication-information, as consequent, reducing the size of disaster victims can be anticipated.