Assessing Women’s Adaptation in Response to Floods in Karonga District, Malawi | Chapter 10 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 4

 In the face of lasting flood hazards, adaptation becomes an necessary option. Globally, flood hazards have raised their frequency and severity; therefore women accompanying limited resources are frequently at a greater risk of the hazard's impacts on account of a lack of access to crucial occupation capitals. The study assessed daughters's adaptation strategies to put oneself in the place of another flood risks in Karonga District, Malawi. The study was a cross-sectional survey design employing all-inclusive and qualitative research designs. The quantitative method calm data utilizing a Household structured questionnaire, while the subjective method calm data using a tractor trailer-structured inquiry. The sampling technique for determinable was probability natural random sampling to select the three villages and to select female-headed households from the three villages. The subjective sampling technique secondhand purposive examining to choose KII and FDG participants purposely. The sample size for determinable was 120, calculated using the 2010 Fisher's rule; the target ratification rate was 9%. The sample size for qualitative dossier was 17 participants, five (5) from administration departments, two (2) from nongovernmental organisations, two (2) traditional officers and eight (8) members of FDG amounting to some members of ACPC and VCPC. Quantitative dossier were analysed using R and Excel, while qualitative dossier was analysed using Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) Miner 6.0. Results demonstrated lower women participation in trouble training (12%), controversy participation (35%) and low full of enthusiasm DRM actions (20%). Other results recorded higher participation in farming (62%). Bivariate statistical study with association important at (p-value 0.05) was run, and results showed possession influencing pre-flood conduct (p-value=0.043). Bivariate statistics granted occupation to influence wives's ownership and control of land (p-value=0.041), while instruction influenced girls's participation in male-dominated actions (p-value=0.003). The study decided that women in the area were less flexible to flood hazards due to their depressed-income levels and patriarchal arrangement, which hindered their approach to adaptive volume domains like assets and instrumentality. The study recommends that policymakers in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, in addition to implementers, should set a clear Time frame to ensure an direct and efficient shift from a sensitive to a proactive approach in DRR activities, that should too be gender inclusive.

Author(s) Details:

Barnet Chipeta,
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.

Isaac Kadono Mwalwimba,
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The Catholic University of Malawi, Malawi.

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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.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/NPGEES-V8/article/view/11044

Risk Assessment of Floods in Danube Region in Bulgaria| Chapter 13 | Advanced Aspects of Engineering Research Vol. 14

 Floods can result in property destruction, loss of life, major economic losses, and environmental and cultural heritage degradation. In Europe and Bulgaria, major floods have grown more common. More than twice as many medium- to large-scale flash floods have occurred in recent years. The current article presents an examination of the flood risk in the Republic of Bulgaria's Danube area.

Author (s) Details

Rositsa Velichkova
Technical University of Sofia, 8 Kl. Ohridski Ave, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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