Social vulnerability and migration in the wake of disaster: the case of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Myers, Candice A.; Slack, Tim; Singelmann, Joachim

doi:10.1007/s11111-008-0072-y

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“…Regarding the association between age of household head and loss, our findings are in line with Cherniack (2007), who indicated that older populations are significantly more likely to suffer from losses. Similar to other studies (Hazra et al 2014;Myers et al 2008), our results show that migration is positively associated with the probability of loss following a natural hazard. This might be explained by the fact that the rate of migration increases substantially after high-intensity climatic events, and as 1 3 young people are most likely to leave, the remaining family members might experience higher vulnerability to extreme natural events.…”

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Unravelling the association between the impact of natural hazards and household poverty: evidence from the Indian Sundarban delta

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more vulnerable to future risk. The results further suggest that salinization, tidal surge, erosion, and household location are also significant predictors of economic and human losses. Given the current and projected impact of climate change and importance of delta regions as the world's food baskets, poverty reduction and increase societal resilience should be a primary pathway to strengthen the resilience of the poorest populations inhabiting deltas.

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“…New Orleans is a case in point. The city is still struggling to recover from the unexpected 2005 flooding [Myers et al, 2008;Adams, 2012]. Larger floodplain societies, such as the Netherlands, have high levels of protection that make the probability of flooding nearly zero.…”

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Debates—Perspectives on socio‐hydrology: Capturing feedbacks between physical and social processes

Baldassarre

Viglione²,

Carr

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Water Resources Research

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In flood risk assessment, there remains a lack of analytical frameworks capturing the dynamics emerging from two-way feedbacks between physical and social processes, such as adaptation and levee effect. The former, ''adaptation effect'', relates to the observation that the occurrence of more frequent flooding is often associated with decreasing vulnerability. The latter, ''levee effect'', relates to the observation that the non-occurrence of frequent flooding (possibly caused by flood protection structures, e.g. levees) is often associated to increasing vulnerability. As current analytical frameworks do not capture these dynamics, projections of future flood risk are not realistic. In this paper, we develop a new approach whereby the mutual interactions and continuous feedbacks between floods and societies are explicitly accounted for. Moreover, we show an application of this approach by using a socio-hydrological model to simulate the behavior of two main prototypes of societies: green societies, which cope with flooding by resettling out of flood-prone areas; and technological societies, which deal with flooding also by building levees or dikes. This application shows that the proposed approach is able to capture and explain the aforementioned dynamics (i.e. adaptation and levee effect) and therefore contribute to a better understanding of changes in flood risk, within an iterative process of theory development and empirical research.

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“…Thus, we believe that populated floodplains offer a great opportunity to detect and understand socio-hydrological processes. A number of social studies have shown how the severity and frequency of floods can determine whether human settlements in floodplains are viable and sustainable (Myers et al, 2008;Green et al, 2011;Schultz and Elliott, 2012). Meanwhile, many hydrological studies have investigated the impact of human activities (Fig.…”

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Towards understanding the dynamic behaviour of floodplains as human-water systems

Baldassarre

Kooy

Kemerink

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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. This paper offers a conceptual approach to explore the complex dynamics of floodplains as fully coupled human-water systems. A number of hydrologists have recently investigated the impact of human activities (such as flood control measures, land-use changes, and settlement patterns) on the frequency and severity of floods. Meanwhile, social scientists have shown how interactions between society and waters in deltas and floodplain areas, including the frequency and severity of floods, have an impact on the ways in which social relations unfold (in terms of governance processes, policies, and institutions) and societies are organised (spatially, politically, and socially). However, we argue that the interactions and associated feedback mechanisms between hydrological and social processes remain largely unexplored and poorly understood. Thus, there is a need to better understand how the institutions and governance processes interact with hydrological processes in deltas and floodplains to influence the frequency and severity of floods, while (in turn) hydrological processes co-constitute the social realm and make a difference for how social relations unfold to shape governance processes and institutions. Our research goal, therefore, is not in identifying one or the other side of the cycle (hydrological or social), but in explaining the relationship between them: how, when, where, and why they interact, and to what result for both social relations and hydrological processes? We argue that long time series of hydrological and social data, along with remote sensing data, can be used to observe floodplain dynamics from unconventional approaches, and understand the complex interactions between water and human systems taking place in floodplain areas, across scales and levels of human impacts, and within different hydro-climatic conditions, socio-cultural settings, and modes of governance.

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Social vulnerability and migration in the wake of disaster: the case of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Cited by 311 publications

References 34 publications

Unravelling the association between the impact of natural hazards and household poverty: evidence from the Indian Sundarban delta

Unravelling the association between the impact of natural hazards and household poverty: evidence from the Indian Sundarban delta

Debates—Perspectives on socio‐hydrology: Capturing feedbacks between physical and social processes

Towards understanding the dynamic behaviour of floodplains as human-water systems

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