Exploring community resilience and early warning solution for flash floods, debris flow and landslides in conflict prone villages of Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Mohanty, Ashutosh; Hussain, Mujahid; Mishra, Manoranjan; Kattel, Dambaru Ballab; Pal, Indrajit

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.07.012

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“…These changes have delayed the agriculture harvesting. They witnessed speedy winds during summer and changes in the rain pattern, with less rain as compared to 10 years ago during the rainy season of March and April [19].…”

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Climate and Water Resources Variation in Afghanistan and the Need for Urgent Adaptation Measures

Nasimi¹

2020

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Climate changes due to anthropogenic distortions to the environment are increasing worldwide, and also throughout Afghanistan. Effects on Water resources reflected by the intensification of floods and droughts cause emergency situations in Afghanistan. In this research, we have reviewed the changes of climate factors and their impact on the water resources in Afghanistan. Meteorological data, including temperature, precipitation, streamflow data, glacier monitoring data were collected and used to analyze the changes reflected in precipitation, surface water, glacier melting, and groundwater resource. Temperatures of winter seasons in one decade starting from 2007 to 2017 had increased from 0.9 ℃ to 2.5 ℃. The summer season temperature had increased from 0.5 ℃ to 1.2 ℃. These show that the winter periods are getting warmer when compared to the temperature of the summer periods. Glacier volumes have decreased by 18.53% between 1994 to 2015. Surface runoff in streams have dramatically reduced by 22% when compared with the that observed between 1962 to 2017. It was identified that the streamflow peaks become sharper and reach larger values. Due these floods have a rapid response with a larger destructive power. The prolonged droughts also show a devastating characteristic. Due to the changes in the climate groundwater resources are depleting and has been worst hit due to over extractions. The Karez system, which is the local underground water channeling network has been abandoned and dried up all over Afghanistan. Thus, sustainable climate change adaptation programs are urgently required to be developed and implemented in Afghanistan.

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Climate and Water Resources Variation in Afghanistan and the Need for Urgent Adaptation Measures

Nasimi¹

2020

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“…Adanya gangguan aktivitas tersebut mengindikasikan dampak banjir yang dialami oleh masyarakat (Qasim et al, 2016). Dampak dan kerugian ini terjadi akibat kerentanan masyarakat yang tinggi saat menghadapi bencana banjir yang terjadi (Mohanty, Hussain, Mishra, Kattel, & Pal, 2019). Besarnya tantangan permasalahan banjir ini juga terjadi di Kecamatan Barabai, yang merupakan pusat kegiatan sekaligus sebagai ibukota dari Kabupaten Hulu Sungai Tengah.…”

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Kemampuan Kebertahanan Masyarakat pada Permukiman Rawan Banjir di Kecamatan Barabai, Kabupaten Hulu Sungai Tengah

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2020

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Seasonal floods that occur in residential areas affect the socio-economic conditions of the community which will gradually lead to a level of survival. Resilience occurs because of the encouragement of the community that exposed to flood disasters to absorb and overcome the disturbances and get recover to keep continue the life, including to the community who live in flood-prone settlements in Barabai District. This study aims to analyze the ability of community survival as resilience in flood-prone areas in Barabai District. The method used in this research is quantitative descriptive with scoring method whose assessment is based on the Resilience Radar index. This research asseses the social, economic, preparedness and physical dimensions. The results of the study found that the high-resilience element of the community resilience in Barabai is social dimension, and the low-resilience element is physical dimension. In aggregate, the community in flood-prone settlements in Barabai has a medium level of survival capability to flood disaster.

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“…Since such disasters are frequently unanticipated in terms of timing, magnitude, and location it is extremely difficult to avoid, mitigate, or address all associated threats, both natural and anthropogenic. Consequently, a community’s degree of resilience (Moreno et al 2019 ; Berkes et al 2016 ; FAO 2010 ; UNISDR 2009 ) can become crucially important (Mohanty et al 2019 ; Freddie and de Sylva 2018 ; Cutter et al 2008 ). The Philippine government defines resilience as “the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions” (RA 10,121 2010 :10).…”

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“…A community is said to be resilient if its members recognize the importance of social support mechanisms such as neighbor, family and kinship networks, social cohesion, mutual interest groups, and mutual self-help groups (Mohanty et al 2019 ; ODI 2016 ; Norris et al 2008 ). To date there remains a need for additional studies that quantify community resilience (Moreno et al 2019 ; Berkes et al 2016 ; Johansen et al 2016 ; FAO 2010 ; Adger et al 2005 ) especially in archipelagic and developing countries like the Philippines.…”

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Measuring Small Island Disaster Resilience Towards Sustainable Coastal and Fisheries Tourism: The Case of Guimaras, Philippines

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Small islands have unique environmental characteristics that make them prone or vulnerable to natural and human-induced hazards. The ability of a community to measure and assess its own characteristics (i.e., connectedness, risk and vulnerability, procedures on disaster planning, response and recovery, and available resources) contributes to the improvement of its capacity to better deal with, survive, and recover from disasters. Thus, we undertook this study to measure the resilience of a small island community using a tool developed by the Torrens Resilience Institute. We conducted a survey among 37 local government officials and 192 local community residents in the Island Province of Guimaras from August to December 2018 using a structured questionnaire following a simple random sampling method. Our results show that Guimaras is facing various natural and anthropogenic hazards. However, local officials and community residents agreed that Guimaras is in the “Going Well Zone” (i.e., the island community is likely to be extremely resilient to any disaster) and that there is no significant difference (t-test, α = 0.05) in their ratings on disaster preparedness. As sun, sand, and sea tourism is a growing industry worldwide, the assessment that small island tourist destinations such as Guimaras is a resilient community would have positive impacts on the tourism industry, possibility leading to the sustainable development of coastal communities with tourism as a major source of supplemental or alternative livelihoods while reducing pressure on overexploited fish stocks.

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Exploring community resilience and early warning solution for flash floods, debris flow and landslides in conflict prone villages of Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Cited by 65 publications

References 8 publications

Climate and Water Resources Variation in Afghanistan and the Need for Urgent Adaptation Measures

Climate and Water Resources Variation in Afghanistan and the Need for Urgent Adaptation Measures

Kemampuan Kebertahanan Masyarakat pada Permukiman Rawan Banjir di Kecamatan Barabai, Kabupaten Hulu Sungai Tengah

Measuring Small Island Disaster Resilience Towards Sustainable Coastal and Fisheries Tourism: The Case of Guimaras, Philippines

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