Application of Pressure and Release Model to Assess Flood Impact in Mitondo Area, Chikwawa District, Malawi| Chapter 12 | Novel Perspectives of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences Vol. 8

 The study analysed the flood impact in the Mitondo field regarding the Pressure and Release (PAR) model. The PAR model describes a disaster as a device of physical exposure and socioeconomic Pressure. The model has three parts generating Vulnerability on the friendly side, namely root causes, vital Pressure, and unsafe environments.The study aimed to identify the impact that floods have had on population's socioeconomic status, to enact the most accessible groups during floods concerning gender and to identify managing mechanisms working during floods. The study secondhand a descriptive cross-localized research design. Most prone flood villages were selected, shareholders were sampled using resolved to do something sampling, and dossier were analysed using SPSS and Microsoft Excel.The study results told that the prevailing vulnerabilities all the while the floods were rooted in differing factors, grazing from poverty, lack of possessions, lack of strong infrastructure, and lack of early warning schemes, as depicted apiece stages of the PAR model. These factors developed from the individual, community, and social Government's mistakes. There is still more to be accomplished on the progression to the security model. The current efforts in Mitondo are only established and aiming at ruling the situation. For example, people must move to safe areas, build hazard-resistant constructions and infrastructure, increase depressed incomes, and embark on a disaster readiness plan to achieve reliable conditions.The study urged that Government and key stakeholders endure civic educate community in Mitondo who populate in flood-prone regions in order for ruling class to move permanently to higher sediments. The relocating should support the provision of all the essential socio amenities to a degree schools, hospitals, infrastructure, water, and farming support for three years to authorize the households to settle. Furthermore, the precinct council must evolve response and recovery plans for flood hazards agreeing its trouble risk management plans and merge them accompanying its contingency plans.

Author(s) Details:

Calvin Pengapenga,
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The Catholic University of Malawi, Malawi.

Maureen Kapute Mzuza,
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The Catholic University of Malawi, Malawi.

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