RESEARCH ON DISASTER PREVENTION CAPACITY OF LOCAL ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS IN THE CURRENT PERIOD

Abstract

The Central Highlands region in our country has been strongly affected by natural disasters. In recent years, natural disasters such as floods, tube floods, flash floods, landslides have occurred more frequently. The change of climate has made the natural conditions of the Central Highlands more severe, the frequency of natural disasters is increasing with strong intensity and unusual and unpredictable developments. For sustainable socio-economic development, while natural disasters and climate change are a global issue, proactively improve capacity to prevent, aroid and mitigate natural disaster risks for the ethnic minority community living in the Central Highlands, especially for local ethnic minorities has become urgent and meaningful more important than ever. The author of this article has detailed research results at the national level on factors forming disaster response capacity of local ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands. Through the data, there has been an in-depth study of the capacity to respond to major types of natural disasters of the local ethnic minority communities in the Central Highlands today.