About Bridges and Bonds
Community Responses to The 2000 Floods in Mabalane District, Mozambique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7280425 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Brouwer (0000-0002-1419-9175, Eduardo Mondlane University), Roland Brouwer (0000-0002-0525-2050), Joel Nhassengo (National Directorate of Geology) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 234-255 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0361-3666.2006.00317.x |
| PMID | 16689920 |
| OpenAlex | W1527236863 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 15 |
Massive floods hit Mozambique in 2000.1 Many of the affected regions benefited from external aid. This paper investigates how the floods impacted on two communities in the interior of the Limpopo Valley, which did not receive significant assistance during the event and in the immediate aftermath. Drawing on the livelihood approach, it focuses on the role of two types of local resources: knowledge and social capital. The paper shows that the scale of the 2000 floods surpassed the response capacity of these resources and looks at how wealth and gender influenced access by households to the local support mechanisms that enhance survival and recovery. It appears that the floods mainly affected wealthier households, as these more frequently lost houses and cattle. The paper points to the importance of ploughs and cattle for local support mechanisms, which, in turn, most likely reduced the capacities of communities to recover from the disaster
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |