Investigating socio-economic impacts of flood on the people poverty affected : a case study in Bago, Myanmar | |
| Author | Htoo Htoo Shwe |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.WM-13-03 |
| Subject(s) | Flood damage--Economic aspects--Myanmar Poverty--Myanmar |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Water Engineering and Management |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Bago city, Myanmar is annually flooded and lost things, properties, accesses and cost money. The study is purposed to analyze impacts of flood between poor household and non¬-poor household by investigating the social, economic, and standard of people living with flood affected and without flood. The field survey area was critical flooded wards and also in non flooded ward also of Bago Township in November 2012. Primary data were collected through questionnaire and key informants. The sample size was 196 households in 13 wards of Bago city, Myanmar. Cross tabulation is used to describe statistical findings such as frequency, percentage, and average of assessment of socio-economic status focusing on gender, age group, income, households’ attendance on disaster risk reduction training. GIS is used to visualize the place of flood affected zone with their spatial characteristic and demographic characteristic according to their location such as housing location from the river bank, surface slope, elevation, and flow accumulation. Based on this study, it is revealed that the poor people are more likely affected by flood in terms of age group, income level, landholding size, housing location, accesses to school and road. Most of involvement is labors/sellers with younger age. There are high direct and indirect costs on poor people compared with their average family income. The extents of flood impacts on poor people are more than that of non-poor people. |
| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Water Engineering and Management (WM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Kawasaki, Akiyuki |
| Examination Committee(s) | Sutat Weesakul;Jourdain, Damien |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Sweden |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2013 |