An assessment of flood vulnerability in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province of Pakistan

Qasim, Said; Qasim, Mohammad; Shrestha, Rajendra P.; Khan, Ataullah

doi:10.3934/environsci.2017.2.206

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“…Absolute measurement of vulnerability using some indicators is not an easy task due to data limitation (Borden et al 2007, Cutter et al 2010). That's why some researchers have adopted proxy indicators to assess vulnerability in their studies (Qasim et al 2017). The vulnerability of this study area was determined through the use of proxy indicators.…”

Section: Indicators For Vulnerability To Oodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of flood vulnerability in Jamuna floodplain: a case study in Jamalpur district, Bangladesh

Haque

Islam²,

Sikder³

et al. 2022

Nat Hazards

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Flooding is a recurring event, and Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to it. This study aimed to assess the Jamuna oodplain's community vulnerability. A concise overview of the literature had performed to identify and nalize the indicators of vulnerability. Expert judgments used to weight the selected indicators. Primary data were collected using a pretested questionnaire throughout the eld, where 400 households have been interviewed. Using multi-stage sampling techniques, ve Upazilas of Jamalpur district, including Dewanganj, Islampur, Madarganj, Melandaha, and Sharishabari, were purposively chosen following extensive ood damage reports. Percentage value was derived using SPSS for each variable collected from the eld survey. The variable vulnerability index (VVI) was derived by dividing the weighting value by the eld percentage value for each variable. Exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity have been calculated using the variable vulnerability index values. Finally, using a widely recognized established index, the vulnerability was assessed for the study area. The calculated vulnerability scores for Dewanganj, Islampur, Madarganj, Melandaha and Sharishabari are 0.86, 0.84, 0.71, 0.70 and 0.65. According to the survey ndings, all the study sites are found highly vulnerable to oods, especially Dewanganj and Islampur Upazilas, due to poor socio-economic conditions, low adaptive capacities, and high exposures. This study recommends resistant materials like brick and concrete in housing construction, sustainable ood-resistant dams and improving their adaptive capacities through socio-economic uplift.the government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh under the NST Fellowship Program in 2018-2019 FY.Cordial thanks are expressed to Md. Kamruzzaman and Md. Asif Bin Alam for their assistance during household survey.

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confidence: 99%

Assessment of flood vulnerability in Jamuna floodplain: a case study in Jamalpur district, Bangladesh

Haque

Islam²,

Sikder³

et al. 2022

Nat Hazards

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“…(Abbas et al 2016) compare Pakistan to India and Nepal and find that flood management planning is performing much less well in Pakistan than in the South Asian neighbors. (Qasim et al 2017) recommend the more flood-secure housing construction with more durable material and in safer locations. (Aslam 2018) identify river embankments and water storage reservoirs as already existing adaptation options and further point to several non-structure measures, including an early warning system.…”

Section: Adaptation To Floodingmentioning

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Climate Modeling for Macroeconomic Policy: A Case Study for Pakistan

Burns¹,

Jooste²,

Schwerhoff³

2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…Widely accepted relevant indicators (element characteristics) are being presented in the literature (Fernandez et al, 2016;Papathoma-Köhle et al, 2017;Qasim et al, 2017). However, because the real conditions that determine flood vulnerability are site-specific, location dependent and hazard dependent, data-driven tools such as census, GIS, and remote sensing data as well as field surveys, expert interviews and flood depth and velocity modeling are useful to overcome limitations in the indicator selection process (Müller et al, 2011).…”

Section: Indicator-based Flood Vulnerability Assessmentmentioning

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“…Other buildings may act as protection to other buildings as intensity of hazard may be reduce. (Qasim et al, 2017) Houses built near coasts <1000 m <2000 m <5000 m >5000m…”

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An Indicator-Based Approach for Micro-Scale Physical Flood Vulnerability Mapping

Kaoje

Rahman

Tam

et al. 2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. Map representation of vulnerability is a crucial step in evaluating flood impact and all vulnerability indicators that are the final product of risk assessment. So far, in flood risk assessment, this is probably the weakest link. Flood risk mapping suffers from inequality in the level of development in presenting the different components: where exposure and hazard modelling and mapping is well developed and advanced, while vulnerability analysis and mapping are underdeveloped. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to discuss a newly developed GIS-based approach on micro-scale flood vulnerability mapping of physical elements at risk using an indicator-based method. Micro-scale flood vulnerability is used to eliminate flood vulnerability in an area with a high probability of occurrences. The approach is suitable for cost-benefit analysis of structures protection measures. At micro-scale flood vulnerability mapping, it is more suitable to adopt indicator-based vulnerability assessment methods. Because it provides an opportunity for incorporating all the factors and characteristics of elements at risk that contribute to generating their flood vulnerability. Likewise, a considerable amount of studies argue that vulnerability assessment and its representation on maps should focus on the identification of variables that influence the vulnerability of an element at risk. Flood vulnerability mapping at micro-scale provides critical information for the decision-makers on why specific infrastructures are susceptible more than the others. Moreover, assessing and managing flood risk is crucial in order to reduce the loss and adapt to the combined effects of rapid urbanization and climate changes.

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An assessment of flood vulnerability in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province of Pakistan

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

Assessment of flood vulnerability in Jamuna floodplain: a case study in Jamalpur district, Bangladesh

Assessment of flood vulnerability in Jamuna floodplain: a case study in Jamalpur district, Bangladesh

Climate Modeling for Macroeconomic Policy: A Case Study for Pakistan

An Indicator-Based Approach for Micro-Scale Physical Flood Vulnerability Mapping

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