Measuring household resilience to floods: A case study in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta
By Kien V Nguyen, H. James. 2013
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The flood is a well-known phenomenon in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta (MRD). Although people have experienced the impact of floods for years, some adapt well, but others are vulnerable to floods. Resilience to floods is a useful concept to study the capacity of rural households to cope with, adapt to, and benefit from floods. Knowledge of the resilience of households to floods can help disaster risk managers to design policies for living with floods. Most researchers attempt to define the concept of resilience; very little research operationalizes it in the real context of "living with floods". We employ a subjective well-being approach to measure households' resilience to floods. Items that related to households' capacity to cope with, adapt to, and benefit from floods were developed using both a five-point Likert scale and dichotomous responses. A factor analysis using a standardized form of data was employed to identify underlying factors that explain different properties of households' resilience to floods. Three properties of households' resilience to floods were found: (1) households' confidence in securing food, income, health, and evacuation during floods and recovery after floods; (2) households' confidence in securing their homes not being affected by a large flood event such as the 2000 flood; (3) households' interests in learning and practicing new flood-based farming practices that are fully adapted to floods for improving household income during the flood season. The findings assist in designing adaptive measures to cope with future flooding in the MRD.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science
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- Resilience of local food systems and links to food security – A review of some important concepts in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks (2020, methodology): “2015; FAO 2016), or use information derived from self-assessed resilience measure, using psychometric techniques (Nguyen and James 2013; Béné et al. 2016a).”
- Resilience isn't the same for all: Comparing subjective and objective approaches to resilience measurement (2018, methodology): “Rather than relying on external judgment, subjective approaches consider the individuals in question to understand their own circumstances (Nguyen & James, 2013).”
- Measuring 'subjective resilience': using peoples' perceptions to quantify household resilience (2015, unknown): “Ecological conceptualisations of resilience largely focus on the capacity of a system to absorb changes but still maintain its core function (Nguyen & James, 2013).”
- ‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters (2016, methodology): “…resilience is to build on the growing number of approaches and frameworks (see Marshall and Marshall 2007; Marshall 2010; Choptiany et al. 2015; Nguyen and James 2013; Grothmann and Patt 2005; Seara 2014; Lockwood et al.’s 2015), as well as those from wider related fields, and ensure that the…”