Assessing Household Vulnerability and Coping Strategies to Floods:
··· lezzter Preis 27.55€ ··· 9783867276504 ··· 10361169885 ··· The frequent occurrence of disastrous floods results in losses for both human life and property values in Bangladesh. This study thus is set forth to examine the relationships between socioeconomic conditions and vulnerability to flood hazards. A cross sectional household survey was carried out two weeks after floods in four districts of Bangladesh in the year 2005. In total 1050 households in rural areas were interviewed through a three stage stratified random sampling. Among the four sampled districts, three were affected by monsoon floods and only one, the Nilphamari district, was affected by a flash flood. Bivariate analyses depict that floods have significant downside effects on households¿ wellbeing, as overall headcount poverty level deteriorates by 17 percent. The worst welfare loss is measured in Jamalpur district where the majority of households are involved with agriculture. A multivariate regression model is carried out that shows that some demographic, socioeconomic and community variables along with flood shock variables have a noteworthy impact on flooded and non-flooded households¿ income. Estimates of a multinomial logit model illustrate that flood height, duration and loss of working days are significant for the poor households¿ income deterioration, whereas non-poor households are significantly affected by flood duration and loss of assets during floods. To assess households¿ vulnerability to floods, this study incorporates four methodologies from the poverty dynamic literature. Vulnerability estimates from the `vulnerability to expected poverty¿ approach depict that flooded households have a higher risk of falling below the poverty line compared with the non-flooded households. This is the only methodology out of four used in this study that could estimate households¿ vulnerability from crosssectional data and thereby allowing to estimate non-flooded households¿ vulnerability. The results show that idiosyncratic vulnerability is higher for households affected by monsoon flood, whereas flash flood worsens households¿ covariate vulnerability. Households involved with agriculture are found to be more vulnerable than other income groups. The `vulnerability to expected utility¿ approach illustrates that elimination of poverty would increase household welfare and thus lessen vulnerability the most. Poverty and idiosyncratic flood risks are positively correlated and highly significant. Households with higher educated members, being male-headed and owner of a dwelling place have been found to be less vulnerable to idiosyncratic flood risks. Possession of arable land and a small family size can reduce poverty and the aggregate flood risk. The vulnerability of households from flooded regions, estimated by the `vulnerability to poverty line¿ and the Monte Carlo Bootstrap methodologies, shows higher values compared to actual poverty rates. In this study, stationary environment is assumed with measurement errors in cross sectional surveyed data, so that the `vulnerability to expected utility¿ approach demonstrates better results and closer estimates with respect to actual poverty levels after floods than the other three methodologies. This study also deals with the query whether crop diversification would be an option for mitigating flood risk for farmers and concludes with the finding that mix-crop culture with cash and staple crops would lessen households¿ vulnerability. In the time of the flooding, rural people in Bangladesh suffer from the lingering effects of labor market disruption, price fluctuations, and consumption deficiency. Households initiate coping with borrowing money after the realization of floods and gradually lead to cope with savings and selling assets as the duration of flood increases, which is illustrated from a tobit model approach. In addition, empirical analyses explain that the decision to migrate is often guided by the aspiration to replenish asset values damaged by the floods, as ruralurban migration emerges as a source of credit. Participation in social networks plays an important role for the households during flood crisis to get information about potential host areas for migration. Hersteller: Cuvillier Verlag Marke: Cuvillier Verlag EAN: 9783867276504 Kat: Hardcover/Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft/Wirtschaft/Sonstiges Lieferzeit: Sofort lieferbar Versandkosten: Ab 20¤ Versandkostenfrei in Deutschland Icon: https://www.inforius-bilder.de/bild/?I=26pGPPyiNL2tps4CxX7ttnWClv5om81C93f47uNR9D8%3D Bild:
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