Battling with urban floods: Household experience, coping and adaptation strategies in Ghana

Abass, Kabila

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2023.104430

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“…The response aspect implemented focuses on rescuing affected residents to safer places and providing assistance to meet basic needs and restoring the homes of residents affected by the flood disaster. These countermeasures are categorized as non-structural adaptations (Abass, 2023).…”

Section: Countermeasures (Response) Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Education and training institutions also play a role in increasing the capacity and skills of disaster management officers and can help increase public awareness of flood risks (Haddow and Haddow, 2014). Even though many institutions are involved in flood disaster management, both directly and indirectly, institutional performance needs to be maintained in order to maintain the level of satisfaction for the public, especially those affected by the disaster (Abass, 2023).…”

Section: Institutional Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Comparison of climate change causes of flood disaster adaptation strategies in Tanzania and Indonesia

Octaviana,

Koestoer

2024

ANDMEJ

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Floods are one type of disaster triggered by climate change that occurs globally. Many cities in the world have responded to combat climate change by establishing a number of action plans to combat climate change, including the City of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania and the City of Jakarta in Indonesia. The aim of this study is to review and compare adaptation strategies to combat climate change established by the City of Dar Es Salaam and the City of Jakarta based on research conducted in 2022-2023 and other relevant literature. The method used in this research is Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and comparative study with a qualitative descriptive approach to the evaluation of climate change induced flood disaster adaptation strategies between Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Jakarta, Indonesia. Study shows that the adaptation programs implemented in Dar Es Salaam and Jakarta have generally similar programs. Both cities have a number of programs that describe adaptation strategies for potential flood disasters induced by climate change which in this study grouped into seven aspects. However, the Dar Es Salaam City program still tends to focus on the institutional level (institutional wise) while the Jakarta program has started to focus on a community basis (community wise) which is starting to involve and develop the community in the climate change action plan program. It is highly recommended for the city of Dar Es Salaam to start changing the focus of its adaptation strategy to be more community-based to increase community ownership of the strategies that would be implemented.

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Section: Countermeasures (Response) Aspectsmentioning

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Section: Institutional Aspectsmentioning

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Comparison of climate change causes of flood disaster adaptation strategies in Tanzania and Indonesia

Octaviana,

Koestoer

2024

ANDMEJ

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“…This adaptation was conducted only by few households. According to Abass [9], storey buildings is one action to escape from menace of constant flooding. Thus, the function of an additional floor is to safe valuable assets of the family.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The authors argue that adaptation is important things to do by urban communities with the goal of protecting and reducing the impact of disaster risk at the household level. The types of adaptation measures are structural and non-structural measures as an additional option to reduce the losses [9].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The demands as a social-cultural strategic area require that this area be able to provide optimal service. Many studies have shown that floods have an impact on time and material losses so the community takes action to adapt [9][10][11]. Communities who are vulnerable to floods will increase their adaptation to adjust to the conditions in which they live.…”

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Mapping Urban Disaster Adaptation Typology of Cebolok Community of Semarang City

Purnomo,

Esariti

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The concept of urban resilience is related to disaster risk management. A city that is resilience can be indicated from the adaptive capacity of the community to stress and shock, preparedness when a disaster occurs, and quick recovery after a disaster. This article explores strategies for increasing urban resilience as community adaptation measures for reducing the risk of flood disasters in urban villages of Cebolok, Semarang. Quantitative method was used by distributing questionnaires and in depth-surveys to 40 households. Results show 2 evidences. First, Cebolok Community modified their housing as a form of physical adaptation to floods. Second, it confirms that community adaptation strategy is related to necessity in maintaining livelihood assets.

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An integrated urban flooding risk analysis framework leveraging machine learning models: A case study of Xi'an, China

Li,

Jiang,

et al. 2024

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Battling with urban floods: Household experience, coping and adaptation strategies in Ghana

Cited by 4 publications

References 40 publications

Comparison of climate change causes of flood disaster adaptation strategies in Tanzania and Indonesia

Comparison of climate change causes of flood disaster adaptation strategies in Tanzania and Indonesia

Mapping Urban Disaster Adaptation Typology of Cebolok Community of Semarang City

An integrated urban flooding risk analysis framework leveraging machine learning models: A case study of Xi'an, China

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