The Impacts of Flood and Local Communities’ Coping Strategies along the River Gambia
The Impacts of Flood and Local Communities’ Coping Strategies along the River Gambia作者机构：WASCAL-Graduate Research Program in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Universite de Lome Lome Togo Laboratory of Botany and Plant Ecology (LBPE) University of Lom Lome Togo School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences University of The Gambia Kanifing The Gambia School of Arts and Sciences University of The Gambia Kanifing The Gambia
出 版 物：《American Journal of Climate Change》 (美国气候变化期刊（英文）)
年 卷 期：2024年第13卷第3期
页 面：522-542页
学科分类：083002[工学-环境工程] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 08[工学]
主 题：Coping Strategies Disaster Flood Impact Climate Change Hazard Local Communities
摘 要：Flood disasters as Climate change hazards are common in developing countries, particularly in communities along the river Gambia. Local communities, for instance, had their local coping strategies that enabled them to stay in their communities even amid these ordeals, and climate change disaster threats. This work strives to understand flood impacts and the local peoples’ adaptation or coping strategies along the River Gambia basin. A community-based cross-sectional research study of 422 research participants of which 294 are males (69.7%) and females 128 (30.3%), and a focus group discussion of 10 groups which comprised 5 female groups and 5 male groups respectively found that 98.6% of the households experienced floods in their community, and 70.6% experienced flood in their houses, 2.1% have impending flood information and 88.4% do not know evacuation centres. The majority of the households had some local coping strategies, but they acknowledged their insufficient effectiveness. The result also shows that the impact of floods on farmlands, roads, buildings, and livestock was greatly felt. Coping strategies such as sandbags, raised elevations, contour bonds, dikes, and buildings on highlands were all found to be common mechanisms the local people used. The study opines that floods affect communities, but the effects vary depending on individual assets.
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