Factors Affecting Family Welfare of Garut-Indonesia Flash Flood Survivors: A Case Study of Impact Disaster on SDGs

Abstract

Disasters risk reduction and sustainable development goals (SDGs) are closely linked. The frequent disaster causing devastating impact on society and community. This study aims to analyze the driver of family welfare of survivors of the 2016 Garut flash flood. The total sample consisted of 120 families, some living in temporary sheltered evacuation sites (SF) and others having returned home (non-sheltered group/NSF). Data was obtained at the four months following the disaster. The study revealed that, compared to the respondents in the SF sites, the NSF respondents had higher income, more sources of stress, better coping strategies, and a higher level of welfare. Income, financial management, coping strategies, and economic pressure all had a positive effect on total welfare while, in the case of subjective wellbeing, greater impact came from sources of stress compared with coping strategies. Objective wellbeing, on the other hand, was only influenced by income and coping strategies.