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Exploring household decision for safer housing: A behavioural simulation approach
Saputra, Aditya P.G. (2024) Exploring household decision for safer housing: A behavioural simulation approach.
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| Abstract: | To improve housing safety in houses reconstructed after a disaster, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of decision-making by households as houseowners. This research aims (1) to identify factors that influence decision-making in improving housing safety and (2) to use these factors as a basis for creating an agent-based model to help explore and analyze the dynamics of decision-making by households. This research uses data from Okhaldhunga District and Gorkha District, two of the 14 districts most affected by the 2015 Nepal earthquake, through an integrated approach using literature studies, expert workshops, and quantitative analysis in the form of linear regression analysis. This research identifies factors that impact the level of safety of reconstructed houses. Linear regression analysis identified 14 significant variables that influence housing safety. This research created four Agent-based models to explore decision-making dynamics: 1) the Stochastic model, 2) the Stochastic random model, 3) the Resilience model, and 4) the Informed null model. Okhaldhunga district data was used for descriptive validation, while Gorkha district data was used for predictive validation. The validation results of the model simulation show that there is a significant difference between the validation results of the Okhaldhunga district and the Gorkha district simulations. Overall, this research offers valuable insights for practitioners and policymakers aiming to improve housing safety in post-disaster reconstructed houses. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | ITC: Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation |
| Subject: | 10 humanities in general, 70 social sciences in general, 74 (human) geography, cartography, town and country planning, demography |
| Programme: | Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation MSc (75014) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/100376 |
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