The influence of land tenure and dwelling occupancy on disaster risk reduction. The case of eight informal settlements in six Latin American and Caribbean countries

Sarmiento, Juan Pablo; Sandoval, Vicente; Jerath, Meenakshi

doi:10.1016/j.pdisas.2019.100054

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“…The core principle behind an iterative stepwise process in general is that the set of variables included in the model is refined by systematically removing the variable(s) with the highest p ‐value, until only variables deemed to be statistically significant remain. Iterative backwards‐stepwise processes (Fields, 2009) have been used in a range of studies within risk research (Botzen, Kunreuther, Czajkowski, & de Moel, 2019; Bubeck, Botzen, Kreibich, & Aerts, 2013; Bubeck & Thieken, 2018; Ganguly, Nahar, & Hossain, 2019; Kabra, Ramesh, & Arshinder, 2015; Roder, Hudson, & Tarolli, 2019; Sarmiento, Sandoval, & Jerath, 2020).…”

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Self‐stated recovery from flooding: Empirical results from a survey in Central Vietnam

Hudson

Pham

Hagedoorn

et al. 2020

J Flood Risk Management

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Social inequalities lead to flood resilience inequalities across social groups, a topic that requires improved documentation and understanding. The objective of this paper is to attend to these differences by investigating self‐stated flood recovery across genders in Vietnam as a conceptual replication of earlier results from Germany. This study employs a regression‐based analysis of 1,010 respondents divided between a rural coastal and an urban community in Thua Thien‐Hue province. The results highlight an important set of recovery process‐related variables. The set of relevant variables is similar across genders in terms of inclusion and influence, and includes age, social capital, internal and external support after a flood, perceived severity of previous flood impacts, and the perception of stress‐resilience. However, women were affected more heavily by flooding in terms of longer recovery times, which should be accounted for in risk management. Overall, the studied variables perform similarly in Vietnam and Germany. This study, therefore, conceptually replicates previous results suggesting that women display slightly slower recovery levels as well as that psychological variables influence recovery rates more than adverse flood impacts. This provides an indication of the results' potentially robust nature due to the different socio‐environmental contexts in Germany and Vietnam.

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Self‐stated recovery from flooding: Empirical results from a survey in Central Vietnam

Hudson

Pham

Hagedoorn

et al. 2020

J Flood Risk Management

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“…In the aftermath of a disaster it has also been identified that low-income tenants are less likely to have their homes repaired (Comerio et al 1994). The positive link between land tenure conditions and tenure type, however, and hazard exposure and structural integrity of dwellings is not straightforward with mixed evidence emerging (Sarmiento et al 2020).…”

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“…Within this context inadequate land tenure has been considered an important but often overlooked anticipator of vulnerability to disasters (Reale and Handmer 2011;Sarmiento et al 2020). However, the relevance of tenure security to reducing vulnerability has been recognized by its inclusion as an indicator for the achievement of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1, which is focused on poverty eradication.…”

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Does Tenure Security Reduce Disaster Risk? A Comparative Study of the Nairobi Settlements of Kibera and Kawangware

McDermott

Gibbons

Ochieng

et al. 2021

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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While scholarship suggests that improving tenure security and housing significantly reduces disaster risk at the household level within urban settings, this assertion has not been adequately tested. Tenure security can be conceived as being composed of three interrelated and overlapping forms: tenure security as determined by legal systems; de facto tenure security; and tenure security as perceived by residents. This article traces the relationship between tenure security, the quality of housing, and disaster risk on the basis of a mixed methods comparative case study of the settlements of Kawangware and Kibera in Nairobi. Although the findings suggest that owner-occupancy is associated with the structural integrity of dwellings to a greater extent than tenantship, no association was found between the length of occupancy by households and the structural integrity of the dwelling. Moreover, tenantship is not found to be closely associated with fires and flooding affecting the dwelling as extant scholarship would suggest. Formal ownership is linked with greater investment and upgrading of property with significant implications for disaster risk. Our findings highlight the complex relationship between tenure security and disaster risk in urban informal settlements and provide impetus for further investigation.

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“…La tenencia de la tierra es un conjunto de reglas que definen el derecho de acceso a la tierra y el uso de sus recursos superficiales. Sarmiento et al, (2020) mencionan que en América Latina y el Caribe la tenencia de la tierra tiene el 53 % de influencia en el cambio de uso de suelo y el riesgo. En ese sentido, el territorio en México se clasifica como: propiedad federal, propiedad social (comunal o ejido) y propiedad privada (Llamas- Torres et al, 2019).…”

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“…La necesidad de desarrollar investigación en relación con los SE para la preservación de los ecosistemas en América Latina cobra una importancia preponderante debido a la diversidad biológica y cultural que interactúan, y se complejizan ante la economía global (Sarmiento et al, 2020;Viglizzo et al, 2011).…”

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Análisis multicriterio para el desarrollo urbano en zonas costeras en un contexto de cambio climático: Caso en Acapulco, México

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[Introducción]: El crecimiento urbano en zonas costeras de América Latina pone en riego a la población y contribuye al cambio climático. [Objetivos]: El objetivo de la presente investigación es generar una metodología que a futuro identifique la aptitud territorial para el desarrollo urbano en municipios costeros, considerando medidas de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático, aspectos fisiográficos y político-administrativos. [Metodología]: Este estudio presenta el uso de sistemas de información geográfica (SIG) y la técnica del análisis de decisiones de criterios múltiples (MCDA, por sus siglas en inglés) para la selección de zonas idóneas para el desarrollo urbano en el municipio de Acapulco de Juárez, México. [Resultados]: Se crearon mapas temáticos del promedio de índices de vegetación, de la recarga potencial de agua subterránea, de tenencia de la tierra, de peligro de inundación, de restricciones de zonas urbanas existentes y de cuerpos de agua; posteriormente, se integraron en un MCDA para dotar de zonas urbanas aptas a futuro. En los resultados, se identificaron 367 km2 idóneos para el desarrollo urbano con menor impacto al ecosistema y a la vez, no son un riesgo para la población; asimismo, se identificaron zonas intermedias y no aptas que representan un peligro para la población y al ecosistema. [Conclusiones]: Este trabajo hace posible planear el territorio como una medida de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático con el MCDA a través de SIG, en una zona afectada por los fenómenos hidrometeorológicos y una población en condiciones socioeconómicas adversas.

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The influence of land tenure and dwelling occupancy on disaster risk reduction. The case of eight informal settlements in six Latin American and Caribbean countries

Cited by 21 publications

References 14 publications

Self‐stated recovery from flooding: Empirical results from a survey in Central Vietnam

Self‐stated recovery from flooding: Empirical results from a survey in Central Vietnam

Does Tenure Security Reduce Disaster Risk? A Comparative Study of the Nairobi Settlements of Kibera and Kawangware

Análisis multicriterio para el desarrollo urbano en zonas costeras en un contexto de cambio climático: Caso en Acapulco, México

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