Adaptation strategies in communities under precarious housing: Flooding risks in the peri-urban sector of the city of Morelia, Michoacán, México

Guerrero, Juan Alfredo Hernández; Medrano, Antonio Vieyra; Mendoza, Manuel E.

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.04.010

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“…At the national level, extreme floods may bring back development by some years (Pauw et al, 2010) and threaten national food security (Del Ninno et al, 2003). At the household level, a flood may leave people without shelter (Hernández-Guerrero et al, 2012), limit possibilities to get involved in economic activities (Linnekamp et al, 2011), and may increase the burden of diseases (Nyakundi et al, 2010;McCann et al, 2011). The severity of flood impacts may further increase in the future due to climate change.…”

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Loss and damage from flooding in the Gambela region, Ethiopia

Haile

Kusters²,

Wagesho

2013

IJGW

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Abstract:In this article, we explore the ways in which people in the Ethiopian Gambela region dealt with the extreme flood that occurred in 2007, with specific attention to the associated loss and damage, i.e., the impacts that people were not able to avoid through preventive and coping measures. We found that all of the 431 surveyed households took preventive measures such as the construction of boundary walls, harvesting premature crops and digging drainage ditches to divert the flood away from croplands. However, these could not prevent widespread negative effects such as damage to houses and crops, the outbreak of diseases, and loss of livestock. To deal with the adverse effects, 50% of the respondents relied on the help of relatives, neighbours or friends for food and money. Such assistance appeared crucial. People were, however, worried about over-using their social networks, especially with floods occurring more regularly. Widening people's agricultural and non-agricultural options, for example through investments in micro-finance services and irrigation systems, will help to increase their coping capacity.

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Loss and damage from flooding in the Gambela region, Ethiopia

Haile

Kusters²,

Wagesho

2013

IJGW

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“…A high proportion of immigrants, due to large-scale industry development, further causes heterogeneity and psychological disagreements within the community (Rosemary and Jennifer 2003), resulting in reduced social interactions and a weak network. Additionally, the limited time that community members have occupied their residence has resulted in poor organizational structures and a limited knowledge of the most appropriate adjustment measures that could be implemented for event mitigation (Hernandez-Guerrero et al, 2012). The community lacks not only money but also necessary resources, information, and facilities.…”

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Government support, social capital and adaptation to urban flooding by residents in the Pearl River Delta area, China

Liang

Jiang

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Habitat International

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Increasingly extreme weather events have resulted in massive socioeconomic losses and spark great interest in minimizing the impact of such events in the context of climate change. This paper analyses data from a large-scale household survey conducted in 20 cities in the Pearl River Delta area of China to examine how government support and social capital influence urban residents' adaptations to mitigate the effects of urban flooding. The results show that more than 90% of residents would take engineering or non-engineering measures to protect their private assets against flooding. The most popular measures are moving away their valuable goods and reducing travel during flooding. Government support, such as releasing early warning information, post-disaster services, technical assistance, financial assistance and physical support could significantly improve residents' adoption of adaptation measures. Social capital, operationalized as having a local Hukou (citizenship) in the area where one works, is closely associated with adaptation capacity, whereas a blood relative network has no evident influence on their adaptation behaviours. In addition, household and local community characteristic have positive influence on residents' adaptations. In summary, government support and community activities are most significant factors influencing residents' adaptation to mitigate the impacts of urban flooding but are in great demand in the Pearl River Delta areas.

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“…It is, therefore, possible to observe that the peri-urban areas of the city of Leiria have faced a high degree of pressure derived from the process of soil artificialization, based on the transition from natural and agricultural to urban areas (Barros et al 2018). This transition interface between urban and rural is therefore a dynamic and multifaceted territory that needs to be understood from a multidisciplinary perspective (Hernández-Guerrero et al 2012;Tavares et al 2012;Gonçalves et al 2017). In this sense only an integrated and multidisciplinary analysis can contribute to a better knowledge and evaluation of periurban areas in their multidimensionality and consequently contribute to a more resistant and resilient urban fringe.…”

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Land use and land cover dynamics in Leiria City: relation between peri-urbanization processes and hydro-geomorphologic disasters

Barros

Tavares

Santos³

2021

Nat Hazards

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The objective of the present study is to evaluate the relation between the spatial and temporal dynamics of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) and the hydro-geomorphological processes and their impacts. The study area is the city of Leiria, in central Portugal, within the period 1958–2018 based on the historical record of floods and landslides disasters. The LULC analysis shows an accentuated increase in the artificial areas and a continuous decrease in the agricultural areas. With regard to hydro-geomorphologic disaster occurrences, a total of 124 occurrences were identified, having caused a set of impacts. The obtained results allow one to characterize the artificialization process, its intensity and territorial dispersion, as a consequence of urban sprawl and peri-urbanization, along with its consequences in exposure to hydro-geomorphological processes. The analysis concludes that changing the risk drivers resulted in an increase in frequency and spatial dispersion of hydro-geomorphologic disasters over the analysed period.

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Adaptation strategies in communities under precarious housing: Flooding risks in the peri-urban sector of the city of Morelia, Michoacán, México

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

Loss and damage from flooding in the Gambela region, Ethiopia

Loss and damage from flooding in the Gambela region, Ethiopia

Government support, social capital and adaptation to urban flooding by residents in the Pearl River Delta area, China

Land use and land cover dynamics in Leiria City: relation between peri-urbanization processes and hydro-geomorphologic disasters

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