Risk Reduction or Redistribution? Flood Management in the Mekong Region

Lebel, Louis; Sinh, Bach Tan

doi:10.3850/s179392402009000040

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“…Flooding is not uncommon in Thailand and there has been some debate about the efficacy of official water management strategies in the country and wider region (Lebel & Tan Sinh, 2009). The disaster in 2011 was triggered by exceptionally heavy monsoon rainfall between late July and early December which fell on north and central Thailand, encompassing the Mekong and Chao Phraya river basins.…”

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When Disaster Strikes: The Thai Floods of 2011 and Tourism Industry Response and Resilience

Ghaderi

Som

Henderson

2014

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

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The paper investigates the effects of the floods which covered parts of Thailand in 2011. It discusses the responses of the public and private sectors and evaluates levels of resilience, making particular reference to the opinions of a group of stakeholders in the capital of Bangkok. The findings from primary and secondary data indicate that the immediate impacts of the disaster were severe, but recovery was rapid and the industry demonstrated a high degree of resilience. Consequences for organisations depended on their proximity to the flooded areas and the size and nature of the business. Shortcomings were revealed in the official approach to disaster management within a tourism context and the lack of a learning culture was observed among private enterprises. Responses were primarily of an ad hoc character and it is suggested that more proactive planning is undertaken and a comprehensive and inclusive tourism disaster management plan is established.

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When Disaster Strikes: The Thai Floods of 2011 and Tourism Industry Response and Resilience

Ghaderi

Som

Henderson

2014

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

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“…We also know that much of what passes for institutional reform at the basin or State level to reduce risks of disaster might really be about redistributing risk away from central business districts and valuable property, rather than reducing risks to livelihoods of the poorest or most vulnerable (Lebel and Sinh, 2009;Lebel et al, 2011).…”

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Institutional design propositions for the governance of adaptation to climate change in the water sector

Huntjens

Lebel

Pahl‐Wostl

et al. 2012

Global Environmental Change

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“…Nowadays, in many countries worldwide the researches on the riverside vulnerability (Oyer Zachary, 2014), sustainability of water ecosystems (Simeoni and Corinne, 2009;DePhilip Michele and Moberg, 2010) as well as flood control (Pielke, 2000;Shannon, 2010;Rashid, 2011), evaluation of freshet risks (SaintLaurent Diane, 2007;Lebel and Bach, 2009;Burrell et al, 2015), water quality (Ronghui Li et al, 2014), changes and use of river delta (Hüseyin Korkmaz et al, 2012), etc. are intensive.…”

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Assessment of the riverside vulnerability

Kereselidze¹,

Matchavariani²,

Trapaidze³

et al. 2017

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Aim: Methodology:Results: Interpretation:Principal objective of the present work was to consider the mechanism of riverside destruction by water flow as a random process, which depends on the flow velocity and sustainability of the riverside. The riverside vulnerability was taken as the indicator with respect to the influence of such processes.Vulnerability assessed according to all those indices characteristic of its critical value. It was necessary to select one of the basic determining (integral) factors out of the indicators characteristic of critical state, according to which vulnerability of the object will be assessed.With the aim of practical application of the considered method, let us examine a virtual example was examined. The observation data subject to normal distribution law was assumed. For the admissible The mechanism of riverside destruction by water flow was considered as a random process, which depends on both the effect of flow rate and riverside stability. Vulnerability, the characteristic of the riverside was taken as the indicator of this process with respect to such influence, and famous model "load -stability" from the theory of reliability was used for its identification.

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Risk Reduction or Redistribution? Flood Management in the Mekong Region

Cited by 39 publications

References 55 publications

When Disaster Strikes: The Thai Floods of 2011 and Tourism Industry Response and Resilience

When Disaster Strikes: The Thai Floods of 2011 and Tourism Industry Response and Resilience

Institutional design propositions for the governance of adaptation to climate change in the water sector

Assessment of the riverside vulnerability

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