Contextualizing Household Adaptation to Flooding in Urbanized Floodplain Areas: Pre-disaster Adaptation, Coping Capacity and Post-Disaster Intervention (Published)
As physical flood vulnerability continues to increase in urbanized floodplain areas; understanding and improving household adaptation is an important step towards disaster risk reduction. The study provides an assessment of household adaptation using the resilience model to identify pre-disaster preparedness, household coping capacity, and intervention received during and in post-severe flooding scenarios within communities located in the urbanized floodplain areas of Kosofe. Lagos, Nigeria. Kosofe is the most vulnerable residential area out of the 20 local government areas in Africa’s most populated city, based on flood vulnerability map of the entire city. The study is based on a positivists’ philosophical paradigm, using the deductive approach to gain understanding of resilience model and then tested through a cross-sectional survey involving 324 household heads/representatives in the study area, to contextualize the model in terms of its application in assessing household adaptation. Findings indicate that there is little practice of flood preparedness measures despite high levels of flood risk awareness learnt from previous flood experiences within the area. Similarly, households within the study area rarely use building-based adaptation strategies in coping during severe flooding. Also, government support are very minimal as the most common interventions received by household during and after severe flooding are prayers, savings/thrift contribution, and support from friends and families. The implication of this finding is that by encouraging investments in pre-disaster preparations, deploying adaptive building-based flood disaster risk reduction strategies in new and existing houses, and improving government involvement and support in marginalized urbanized floodplain areas; vulnerable households are better positioned to deal with, cope with and recover from future flood risks.
Keywords: Flooding, Resilience, coping capacity, household adaptation, post-disaster, pre-disaster
Resilience of Fisherman In Industry Development Ikan Asap Households In Bengkulu, Indonesia (Published)
One of the productive economic growth sectors that serves as the foundation for Bengkulu Province’s coastal development program is the development of fishermen’s businesses through the home industry. The goal of this study was to investigate the features of the Ikan Asap home industry as well as to examine the resilience of fishermen in the Ikan Asap home industry in Bengkulu Province. The descriptive analysis method is used in the investigation. From the last 5 (years), precisely from 2018 to 2022, the innovation has been tested using the publish or perish application. Then VOSviewer is used to visualize bibliographies or data sets in order to identify themes that still have research opportunities. The study’s findings indicate the peculiarities of the Ikan Asap home industry for fishermen, both boat owners and crew members. The primary element in the Ikan Asap industry is fresh fish, but fish that are not sold fresh are occasionally used as raw materials. The equipment used is still basic and privately owned. Because the level of marine Ikan Asap production is relatively low, namely an average of 10 kg per production, capital availability is an impediment, and Ikan Asap production is sold to the market and collectors. On the market, sell. The level of resilience of fishermen in the growth of home industries for the production aspect is 17.13 in the weak category, 16.75 in the weak category, and 6.44 on average for capital or credit institutions. Category is lacking. In the medium group, the average level of resilience in terms of market institutions is 7.88. Fishermen in extension institutions have a medium level of resilience, with an average of 7.66.
Keywords: Resilience, home industry development, ikan