Assessing Flood Vulnerability Zones and Their Driving Factors to Guide Community-Based Resilience Planning Across Ngororero District, Rwanda
Abstract:Floods are recognized as devastating and deleterious natural disasters which are contemporary substantial threats to communities, exerting profound impacts on human lives, infrastructure, and the environment. Hence, the aims of this research were to assess and map the flood vulnerability zones, determine the primary local factors driving flood vulnerability, and evaluate the existing flood mitigation measures and propose evidence-based recommendations for enhancing community-based flood resilience. Using an in… Show more
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