Measuring Household Resilience to Floods
A Case Study in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4239851 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kien V Nguyen, Van Kien Nguyen (0000-0001-7073-8615, Australian National University), Helen James (0000-0001-7169-7691, Australian National University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-05427-180313 |
| OpenAlex | W2119099421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 29 |
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
Delta · Environmental resource management · Geography · Mekong delta · Mekong river · Vietnamese · Water resource management · Agricultural risk and resilience · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Geology
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| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |