While this comprehensive survey rev

While this comprehensive survey reveals interesting details

concerning crops farmed; facilities and utilities available; and

threats faced by the local population, it is recommended that a

follow-up study survey is conducted. Since the Yellow River Delta

undergoes major changes (such as erosion and accretion rates,

agriculture intensification, new infrastructure and urban center

development), the rate of vulnerability of the rural population will

undergo similar change. Future studies amongst a larger sample

size over different seasons should provide results that are more

representative with a smaller margin of error, since the answers of

the respondents can be influenced depending on the season,

weather conditions, lack of awareness to hazards and so on. The

results of this questionnaire can be used to attune the questions of

such a follow-up study, which has a larger sample size and a

smaller margin of error. The opinion of the rural population about

their vulnerability to various hazards is useful for future studies, as

such a result can be compared to an in-depth analysis of social

vulnerability of the Yellow River Delta by means of combining

different types of data, such as statistical (e.g. census) and spatial

data (e.g. earth observation). The results of vulnerability assess-
ments that are based on those types of data can then be compared

to the results of future household surveys, and to recommend and

evaluate mitigation efforts that

level of awareness, and safety of the rural population in the Yellow