Measuring Subjective Flood Resilience in Suburban Dakar: A Before–After Evaluation of the 'Live with Water' Project
| Autor: | Patrick Bottazzi, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Salimata Faye, Sébastien Boillat, Mashoudou Maman Chabi Sika, Arsène Kpangon, Abdoulaye Diagne, Mirko S. Winkler |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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sub-Saharan Africa
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Impact evaluation Geography Planning and Development impact evaluation TJ807-830 910 Geography & travel 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources urban resilience Order (exchange) GE1-350 Resilience (network) Environmental planning BACI 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Adaptive capacity Environmental effects of industries and plants Flood myth Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment flood Livelihood Senegal 330 Economics Environmental sciences Transformative learning Business Urban resilience subjective resilience |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 10 Issue 7 Bottazzi, Patrick; Winkler, Mirko; Boillat, Sébastien; Diagne, Abdoulaye; Maman Chabi Sika, Mashoudou; Kpangon, Arsène; Faye, Salimata; Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe (2018). Measuring Subjective Flood Resilience in Suburban Dakar: A Before–After Evaluation of the “Live with Water” Project. Sustainability, 10(7), p. 2135. MDPI 10.3390/su10072135 Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 7, p 2135 (2018) |
| DOI: | 10.7892/boris.117397 |
| Popis: | In the last decade, sub-Saharan African countries have taken various measures to plan for and adapt to floods in order to reduce exposure and its impacts on human health, livelihoods, and infrastructure. Measuring the effects of such initiatives on social resilience is challenging as it requires to combine multiple variables and indicators that embrace thematic, spatial, and temporal dimensions inherent to the resilience thinking and concept. In this research, we apply a subjective resilience indicator framework and a before-after-control-intervention (BACI) evaluation to empirically measure the impacts of the &ldquo Live with Water&rdquo (LWW) project on suburban households in Dakar, Senegal. Our framework is based on an empirically measurable resilience index that combines anticipatory, adaptive, and absorptive capacity&mdash considered as structural dimensions&mdash with the concept of transformative capacity&mdash considered as a temporal reconfiguration of the first three dimensions. Our finding let us estimate that the project increased the absorptive and the anticipatory capacities by 10.6% and 4.6%, respectively. However, adaptive capacity remained unchanged. This may be explained by the fact that the project was more successful in building drainage and physical infrastructures, rather than improving multi-level organizations and strategies to cope with existing flood events. Decoupling implementation time between physical infrastructures and longer term institutional and livelihood based support could both improve projects&rsquo results and their evaluations. |
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