Determinants of Household-Level Coping Strategies and Recoveries from Riverine Flood Disasters: Empirical Evidence from the Right Bank of Teesta River, Bangladesh

Although recurrent floods cause detrimental impact for the people living in riverine floodplains, households are taking up various risks management strategies to deal with them. This paper examined household’s post-disaster coping strategies to respond and recover from riverine floods in 2017. Data...

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Published in:	Climate (Basel) 2021-01, Vol.9 (1), p.4
Main Authors:	Mondal, Md. Sanaul Haque, Murayama, Takehiko, Nishikizawa, Shigeo
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Agricultural land Agricultural management Consumption coping strategies Disaster management Disaster recovery Disasters Emergency preparedness Flood disasters Floodplains Floods Households Hydrologic data logit model northern region post-disaster questionnaire survey Reduction Regression analysis Regression models Risk management riverine flood Rivers Surveying
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Summary:	Although recurrent floods cause detrimental impact for the people living in riverine floodplains, households are taking up various risks management strategies to deal with them. This paper examined household’s post-disaster coping strategies to respond and recover from riverine floods in 2017. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey from 377 households from the right bank of Teesta River in Bangladesh. Households employed different coping strategies including borrowing money, assets disposal, consumption reduction, temporary migration, and grants from external sources, to cope with flood. Results from logistic regression models suggested that increasing severity of flood reduced households’ consumption. Exposed households were more likely to borrow money. Consumption reduction and temporary migration were mostly adopted by agricultural landless households. Income from nonfarm sources was found to be an important factor influencing household’s decisions on coping. Furthermore, households that recovered from the last flood disaster seek insurance through their own savings and available physical assets, highlighting the role of disaster preparedness in resilient recovery. This study calls for the policy intervention at the household-level to enhance the adaptive capacity of riverine households so that people at risk can cope better and recover from flood disaster using their resources.
ISSN:	2225-1154 2225-1154