Social resilience of community and risk governance for flood adaptation in Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar | |
| Author | Ko Ko Lwin |
| Call Number | AIT Diss. no.DM-19- |
| Subject(s) | Climatic changes--Burmar--Risk management Floods--Burma--Risk assessment Resilience (Personality trait) |
| Note | A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Disaster hazards and risk reduction aims towards strengthening the communities in terms of capacities and resilience towards natural disasters. It is necessary for rural community to have resilience not only to cope and adopt but to benefits from floods. Enhancing efforts of the community to be resilient will be able to cope, prevent and reduce the flood risk and minimize the effects of future disaster events. The major objective of this study was to study and analyze social resilience among community association with risk governance of local administration in the context of flood adaptation. The study found out several factors and indicators pertaining to the relationship between community with social resilience and risk governance. This study tried to measure the social resilience in quantitatively and tried to observe the linkages between the social resilience and risk governance for effective community flood risk management. Overall results show that social resilience of the community is at ‘high’ level and significantly different between the high and low flood area. This study is preliminary observation of measuring social resilience of the community in quantitatively. The results showed that most of social resilience indicators were significantly different between low and high flood area under ‘very high’ and ‘high’ level. However, most of socioeconomic factors did not have impact on social resilience of the community in the area. However, there was significantly differences in education level and social resilience of the community. One of the important findings of this study is that there is no relation between monthly income and social resilience of the community. It is also observed that flood adaptation capacities affecting on community social resilience to flood in high and low flood areas are different from one another. There is no significantly different in social demography condition and social cohesion between the two areas. However, there were high level and significantly differences in social networks, community engagement, community value, access to health care service and community competence.Flood resilience of community relating to economic resilience, community at both high and low flood can maintain their livelihood condition especially during the flooding period (86 % having job) and (54.9 %) have only one source of income for their living at both areas. 83.3 percent communities never receive flood evacuation mock drill and 40.9 percent of communities do not receive flood early warning information. 67,4 percent of households are living with non-flood resilient type of housing while 76.3 percent of households are living at unprotected flood areas. Community at high flood have more adaptation practices in agriculture as they can have less flood vulnerability than that of low flood area. This study suggests having more attention to intangible strengths of the physically vulnerable community to assist more effectively to be a disaster resilient community in future.This study suggests a need for assessment and preliminary observation of co-operation mechanism among the stakeholders in terms of risk management plan, awareness and capacity building. The vulnerability mapping, hazard zonation mapping and GIS based resource mapping is essential for enhancing the spatial vulnerability awareness among the vulnerable populations. |
| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Dissertation |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development + School of Engineering and Technology |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management (DM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Pal, Indrajit; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Pennung Warnitchai;Shrestha, Sangam; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | KAAD; |
| Degree | Thesis (Ph.D.) - Asian Insitute of Technology, 2019 |