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considerations, underscoring the need for comprehensive strategies. Furthermore, this research outlines effective
strategies for enhancing emergency preparedness, including risk assessment, response planning, training,
interagency collaboration, and public awareness campaigns. It draws insights from case studies, highlighting both
successes and failures, providing valuable lessons for future preparedness efforts.
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cope, using its own resources. Rising concern on disaster risks in all countries is evidenced in the number of major disasters
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Flood Vulnerable Area Assessment of Abakaliki Metropolis South-eastern Nigeria.IJERA Editor
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As a result of global warming, the climate change in Africa and Asia is predictably becoming more variable, and weather events expected to go more frequently extreme and severe. This includes increasing risk of drought and flooding in new areas. Inundation by extreme floods events is recorded every year worldwide. The potential consequences are profound increasing risk, particularly on environment and people in the less developed countries. Flooding cannot be totally avoided and maybe their occurrence will increase due to climate change. Absolute protection is both unachievable and unsustainable because of high costs and inherent uncertainties. Abilities to mitigate and or prevent flood disasters, cope with and recuperate from the effects have not been sufficiently taken into account nor developed. Communities within watershed or along the River system such as Abakaliki metropolis are mostly under threat of constant flooding menace. When flooding strike, the poor and socio-economically disadvantaged suffer the most and are least equipped to cope with impacts. Vulnerability assessment which many regions of the world recently commenced becomes the way forward. Assessing vulnerability and impacts requires and analysis of information on climate elements, such as temperature, rainfall and non-climatic data, such as situation on the soil, altitude and other characteristics of elements-at-risks indicators. This informs for a well thought-out monitoring (risk assessment), mitigation, coping strategies and adaptation measures which can be adopted by all the vulnerable stakeholders including Governments at all tiers.
MSE 6301, Risk Management 1
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit I
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Analyze the concept of risk within emergency management.
1.1 Identify the various types of risks and hazards communities may face.
1.2 Explain why it is important for public and private sectors to understand how risks and hazards
can affect them.
1.3 Describe the importance of assessing a communityâs vulnerability and risk regarding disaster
events.
Course/Unit
Learning Outcomes
Learning Activity
1.1
Unit Lesson
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Unit I Essay
1.2
Unit Lesson
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Unit I Essay
1.3
Unit Lesson
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Unit I Essay
Reading Assignment
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Hazards, Vulnerability, and Disaster Risk
Unit Lesson
Community preparation for disasters is imperative for life safety, business continuity, and the ability to work
towards a quicker recovery in the event of a disaster. Each community experiences one form of hazard
(tornado, earthquake, hurricane, flooding, or chemical issue) or another, depending on the geographic region
where it is located. There are two types of hazards that are associated with emergency management: natural
hazards and man-made hazards. Natural hazards include hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, winter
storms, micro-bursts, and other natural phenomenon created by nature. Man-made hazards can be divided
into technological and sociological hazards. On the other hand, man-made hazards are those including
terrorist events, chemical leaks, transportation disasters, and many others that include willful intent to cause
harm or death (Kapucu & Ăzerdem, 2013).
It is important for both the public and private sectors to understand the types of hazards that impact
communities. The ability to train, educate, prepare, and respond to disasters allows the community to become
fully engaged in disaster awareness. Earthquakes are one of the most dangerous natural disasters since they
occur with frequency, cannot truly be predicted, and cause damage to infrastructure. Although earthquakes
cause a relatively low number of deaths, there is still damage incurred to buildings, pipelines, critical
infrastructure, and areas beneath the surface of the earth that are unable to be seen. Earthquakes have a
tendency to spawn other natural phenomena such as landslides, tsunamis, and dam failures that may cause
UNIT I STUDY GUIDE
Vulnerability, Hazards, and
Disaster Risk Assessment
MSE 6301, Risk Management 2
UNIT x STUDY GUIDE
Title
inland flooding in addition to the issues surrounding building and infrastructural damage
(Kapucu & Ăzerdem, 2013).
Hurricanes are one of the strongest forces of natural disasters that impact coastal regions. Hurricanes are
divided into categories one through five. The higher category number indicates higher wind speeds, more
damage, and possible catast ...
APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNOLOGIES IN FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENTrsmahabir
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Flooding is the most common of all major disasters that regularly affect populations and results in extensive damage to property, infrastructure, natural resources, and even to loss of life. To ensure better outcomes, planning and execution of flood management projects must utilize knowledge on a wide range of factors, most of which are of a spatial nature. Advances in geospatial technologies, specifically remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), have enabled the acquisition and analysis of data about the Earth's surface for flood mitigation projects in a faster, more efficient and more accurate manner.
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Housing vulnerability, resilience and adaptation strategies to flood hazard a study of shiroro town in niger state, north central nigeria
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Housing Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation Strategies to
Flood Hazard: A Study of Shiroro Town in Niger State, North
Central Nigeria
Anunobi, A.I. (Correspond author)
Department Of Architecture
Federal University Of Technology, Minna.
email: arctonnie2000@yahoo.com
Abstract
This study explores housing vulnerability and resilience to flood in Shiroro, a rural community in Niger State,
North Central Nigeria. It exposes the flood challenge and coping strategies that typifies communities in river
plane and dam water ways. The research method employed is qualitative, descriptive and analytical. Among the
research instruments used were questionnaires and focused group discussion to probe into the menace of flood in
the community. The findings indicate that the people use mostly local technology and expertise in dealing with
the challenge. Many of the coping strategies are rudimentary and require little or no skills to put in place. The
study noted that because the flood challenge will not go away, a comprehensive flood risk assessment should be
put in place as a first step in dealing with the problem.
Keywords: adaptation, flood, resilience, river plain, vulnerability
1. Introduction
Flood is a global hazard. It transcends national and international borders, leaving in its trail, widespread
destruction to life and property. No part of the globe is spared of this menace. Flood originating from one
country can travel several thousands of kilometers to cause damage elsewhere. As a result of this, countries have
to cope with not only flood from within their borders but also from outside.
Though the destructive impact of flood is felt in all sectors, its impact on housing is very disturbing. This is
because a house is often a familyâs most prized possession. It is often the first serious investment by a family.
However, it is immobile and cannot get out of the way of approaching flood. When flood takes its toll on
housing on a large-scale, an equally large scale displacement of persons occurs.
This paper seeks to explore flood threat in Shiroro town, extent of the disaster risk, the townâs vulnerability,
resilience and adaptation strategies to flood threat in the area of domestic architecture. It is an exploratory study
that probes into individual, family and communal adjustments in their continuous struggle against a common
adversary that instead of going away, is increasing in intensity and spread.
1.1
Objectives of the study are:
i.
To analyze the flood risk Shiroro town faces
ii.
To undertake an assessment of the adequacy or otherwise of responses to the threat.
iii.
To undertake a vulnerability and capacities assessment of the identified most vulnerable settlement in
the town.
iv.
To highlight the plight of the community and bring their condition to the knowledge of the authorities.
2.0
Literature Review
2.1
Theoretical Concepts
2.1.1
Hazard
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR 2004a,b, 2005a,b; 2007a,b) defined
a hazard as a potentially damaging physical event, phenomenon or human activity that may cause the loss of life
or injury, property damage, social and economic destruction or environmental degradation. This definition
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throws up hazard as a physical event whose origin could be from natural or human processes. Therefore hazards
could be classified based on their origin.
Hazards originating from human processes are classified either as technological hazards or social violence
(Hewitt, 1997). Technological hazard is accidental failures of design or management relating to large scale
structures, transport systems or industrial processes that may cause the loss of life, injury, property or
environmental damage on a large scale (Smith, 2005). On the other hand, social violence includes the weapons
used (firearms, nuclear gas, biological, chemical warfare) during the type of violence (war, terrorism,
subversion, sabotage, genocide, coup) by whom (armed forces, governments, terrorist groups, rebels) and how
they are carried out (Hewitt 1997).
National hazards are classified according to the sphere of the earth they occur. These include the atmosphere,
hydrosphere, lithosphere, cryosphere and biosphere. Table 1.1 shows a classification of hazards with natural
origins, their types, physical forms and events. Flood hazard falls under the hydrosphere family as can be seen in
the table.
Table 1.1:
Earth
Systemâs
Sphere
Atmosphere
Classification of hazards with natural origins
Hazard Type
Physical Forms or Events
Atmospheric Hazards:
Temperature, fog, rain, strong winds,
lighting, hail, snowfall, freezing rain
(glaze)
Hydrological hazards:
Hydrosphere
Runoff (overland, stream) snow on the
ground, ground water, freeze-thaw, sea
ice, icebergs.
Hazards of the type originating from either the atmosphere or hydrosphere
meteorological hazards (see UNISDR, 2004a)
Geological/Geomorphological hazards:
Lithosphere
Seismicity, volcanoes, tsunami (seismic
And
sea
wave),
earth/rock
materials
Cryosphere
(quickclay,
quicksand),
mass
movements, radioactivity, geothermal
heat.
Biological
and
disease
hazards
Biosphere
(processes of organic origin or those
conveyed
by biological
vectors
[UNISDR, 2004a]):
Viruses (e.g. measles, HIV), bacteria
(e.g. pneumonia), protozoa (e.g. giardia,
malaria), fungal (e.g. pneumocystas),
algae, plants (âweeds), insects (âpestsâ),
animals (âpestsâ)
Thunder/hailstorms, tornadoes, rain and
wind storms, tropical cyclones,
blizzards, glaze storms.
Floods (of different types), glacier
advance and âsurgesâ, ice-infested
waters.
are commonly referred to as hydro
Earthquakes,
volcanic
eruptions,
rockslides, rock avalanches, debris and
mud
flows,
submarine
slides,
subsidence, domestic radon gas
hazards.
Disease outbreaks/epidemics:
Bubonic
plague,
yellow
fever,
influenza
pandemics,
sexually
transmitted diseases, âred tideâ (toxic
algal bloom), plant infestations,
âinvasionsâ, insect plagues/infestations,
locust/grasshopper
plagues,
rat
infestations, shellfish poisonings.
Source: Hewitt 1997
As earlier noted, a hazard is a physical phenomenon. Therefore in discussing a hazard, its location, intensity,
frequency and probability of occurrence are considered. Hewitt, (1997) further classified hazard into its spatial
dimension (area/ extent or reach of coverage), temporal dimension (rate of onset, how fast or slowly it occurs its
duration and frequency) and compound parameters.
Apart from the natural and manmade hazards already noted, Smith, (2004) added a third group he called âNATechâ hazards. He explained that this is a hybrid of the natural and technological hazards. He further argued that
these environmental hazards are created when natural hazards are heavily influenced by technology and the
failures thereof. These na-tech hazards or context hazards result from global environmental change (international
air pollution and resultant oxygen change, environmental degradation, land pressure, urbanization).
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Mustapha, (2005), noted that various physical, social and technological factors intersect to make flood hazard a
âhybrid hazard.â Furthermore, he argues that a flood hazard analysis cannot only consider the natural physical
parameters, but should also consider the hazardscape.
2.1.2
Disaster Risk and Vulnerability
Disaster connotes loss of a huge proportion, normally caused by a hazard. Risk refers to the probability of a
hazard occurring and creating loss (Smith, 2004). It is the chance (within a time frame) of an adverse event with
specific consequences. Disaster risk therefore refers to the probability of harmful consequences, or experienced
losses resulting from the interaction between natural or human induced hazard with the physical, environmental,
social and economic vulnerabilities of society (UNISDR, 2004a and 2005a).
Vulnerability refers to the inherent conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental
factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazard (UNISDR 2004a).
Wisner et al (2004) noted that a disaster cannot occur if it exists but there is no vulnerability or if vulnerability
exists but no hazard. OâBrien et al (2006) argues that risk to a human population is determined by the frequency
of a hazard event, its intensity and peopleâs vulnerability. UNISDR (2004a and 2005a) sums up their relationship
with this equation.
Disaster Risk (DR) = Hazard (H) and vulnerability (V).
2.1.3
Coping and Adaptation.
These refer to disaster reduction strategies. Burton et al (2006) saw coping as either adaptation (biological or
cultural adaptations) or adjustments (incidental and purposeful). In any of the above, coping or adaptation to
climate change in this case manifested through flood involves some form of adjustments to flood disaster risk.
Coping or coping strategies to flood risk therefore allude to a stressful situation being ameliorated.
Satterthwaite et al, (2007) sees adaptation as actual adjustments made from a range of possible choices. These
range of possible choices are all geared towards mitigating the severity of disaster and they come under the term
preparedness planning.
Preparedness planning comprises of a variety of measures that include emergency planning, early warning and
specific actions taken to reduce risk (Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre ADPC 2005). Preparedness in this case
involves flood response and emergency planning, flood forecasting and early warning and review of plans.
Public awareness of flood risk is also an important component of preparedness.
2.1.4
Exposure, Resistance and Adjustments
Pelling, (2003) building on the work of Blaikie et al, (1994) divided vulnerability into three components:
exposure, resistance and resilience. He further postulated that each of these components is made up of two
products viz:â˘
Exposure is the product of physical location and the character of the surrounding built and natural
environment.
â˘
Resistance is the product of economic, psychological and physical health and their system of
maintenance and represents the capacity of an individual or group of people to withstand the impact of a
hazard.
â˘
Resilience to hazard is the ability of an actor to cope with or adapt to hazard stress. It is a product of the
degree of planned preparedness undertaken in the light of potential hazard and of spontaneous or
premeditated adjustments made in response to felt hazard, including relief and rescue see fig 2.1
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Figure 2.1:Pellingâs Human Vulnerability Framework Human Vulnerability
Exposure
Location Environmental
relative to
surroundings
hazard
Resistance
Livelihood
Health
Resilience
Adjustments Preparation
Source: Reproduced from Pelling (2003)
2.2
The Concept of Housing.
Housing as a concept goes beyond shelter. It includes all the social services and utilities that go to make a
community or neighbourhood a liveable environment. The shelter alone is only a part of a bigger assemblage of
interrelated elements. Housing in turn is part of a large assemblage: a city, a settlement or a built environment.
Several concept of housing exit, but the focus here is riverine community housing concept. Here a variant of
mixed use housing concept where the house serves several purposes is mostly employed. It is a unique variant of
mixed use concept, defined by water as both the source of livelihood and the harbinger of death.
A riverine community is often spatially and socially integrated. The community live a life of unity and their
relationship is governed by specific social practices connected by proximity. Due to huge deficit in modern
infrastructure, the community depends on nature for sustenance.
2.3
The Concept of Flood.
Flood is too much water in the wrong place, whether it is an inundated city or a single drain.
Flooding is the unusual presence of water on land to an intensity which has an effect on normal activities.
Flooding arise mainly due to overflowing rivers and heavy rainfall over a short duration. An unusual inflow of
sea water onto land is called ocean flooding. Ocean flooding can be caused by storms such as hurricanes (storm
surge), high tides (tide flooding), seismic events or large landslides (sometimes also called tsunami).
Many definitions of floods have been made by various writers. (Olujimi, 2007) defined a flood is an overflow of
water that submerges land. The European Union (EU) Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of
land not normally covered by water (Ologunorisa, 2004). In the sense of âflowing waterâ, the word may also be
applied to the inflow of the tide. Flooding may result from the volume of water within a body of water, such as a
river or lake, which overflows or breaks levees, with the result that some of the water escapes its usual
boundaries, or may be due to accumulation of rainwater on saturated ground in an area (Olujimi, 2007). While
the size of a lake or other body of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, it is not
a significant flood unless such escapes of water endanger land areas used by man like a village, city or other
inhabited area.
2.4
Climate Change and Flood.
Climate change refers to the noticeable changes in global climate patterns in the last century. The causative
factor is the increase in the quantity of green house gases in the atmosphere. This increase has caused more heat
than before to be trapped in the earthâs atmosphere, making it hotter than before. From historical temperature
readings, every year on the average gets hotter than before (Adger, 2012). This increase in the near surface
temperature of the Earth is called global warming.
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One of the consequences of this global warming is seen in the worldâs water bodies. The rise in temperature has
led to huge icebergs in the arctic regions melting (glacier melt in the polar regions of Antarctica) filling seas and
rivers they flow into. As a result, sea levels rise with its attendant consequences which include fiercer weather,
increased frequency and intensity of storms, hurricanes and heavy downpour.
All these lead to flood. This is the connection between climate change and flood. It means that the more extreme
the weather gets, the more flood that will be experienced. Flood is transnational as it travels from one country to
another, destroying on its journey farmlands, property, infrastructure, residences, people and livestock. This
flood which are transcontinental and caused by glacial melt is called Galactic flood. (Okereke 2012).
2.5
Housing Settlements in Flood Prone Areas.
Due to huge supply deficit of urban land, people tend to settle on any available urban land despite the risks or
hazards. As time went by and with rapid urbanization, even very difficult terrains in urban areas are built on by
people. These difficult and risky terrains include flood plains. Therefore historically, Nigerian flood plains have
always attracted settlement and today, they are no less in demand to meet the needs of urban expansion, posing
risks to these relatively heavily populated settlements.
In the Northern part of Nigeria, the population is mostly agrarian. Those involved in the fishing sectors of the
agrarian industry naturally settled along river banks and tributaries which are naturally flood prone. Also due to
desertification, the segment of the population involved in livestock rearing necessarily have to live along river
banks so that they can find enough water for their flocks. Again to facilitate movement of agricultural produce
from the farms to the towns by boats and canoes, people were also attracted to settle along flood plains.
Another strong motivation to building along river flood plain is peoples desire for the pleasant view of the river
from their homes. This desire to enjoy the rivers and live near them accounts for the some of the worldâs most
valuable real estates being found in cities and towns along river flood plains.
Perhaps the strongest attraction to settlements along flood plains especially in Nigeria is peoplesâ strong affinity
to flood plains in a claimed reverence to their ancestral heritage. This emotional attachment to ancestral areas of
habitation is fueled by the cultural/religious attachment to ancestors, deities and sacred places including sacred
lands. Hence all entreaties to such persons on the risk of settling in these risky areas pales into insignificance
when juxtaposed by their strong emotional attachment to these areas.
3.0
Research Methodology
3.1
Type of Research
The research employs qualitative methods that draw from both primary and secondary sources. These methods
are used to asses housing and flood hazard at both macro (
settlement) and micro (household) scale. The
methods were also used to access household flood vulnerability and resilience inputs that are undertaken in
response to the risk.
The flood hazard during the flooding season was experienced in different physical forms by residents. These
different physical forms were described during a focus group discussion with community leaders and the people.
Transect works through the nooks and crannies of the community provided more insight and additional
perspectives. Site observations afforded the researcher with on the spot the opportunity to see what the people
were trying to say during the discussions. Photographs were taken to document these realities.
3.2
Methodology.
The research methodology involved the following sequence of steps:
Step i:
Assessment of the river flood plain communityâs history of flood challenges.
Step ii: Assessment of the damage on the community during the 2012 Nigerian flood.
Step iii: Assessment of the settlements flood vulnerability.
Step iv: Assessment of households floods vulnerability and resilience.
Step v: Determining house hold risk levels.
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Fieldwork
Fieldwork for this study was carried out on 24th September, 2013 by a team comprising of the author, two senior
research assistants and two junior research assistants. The senior research assistant were carefully chosen as a
result of their rich experience on research while the junior assistant were chosen due to their familiarity with the
geographical location of the research areas, the language and culture of the people.
The means of transport used were motor vehicles, boats and motorcycles. These were alternated as the field
situation required.
4.0
The Study Area.
The study area is Shiroro town in Lakpma Local Government Area of Niger State. The town is located on
latitude 9.96o North and Longitude 6.84o East. It is about 60 kilometers east of Minna, the capital city of Niger
State.
Shiroro town lies on the bank of Shiroro river, a 12.8 kilometer stretch of running water. Shiroro River is a
tributary of river Kaduna, River Kaduna itself is a tributary of river Niger. A unique feature of Shiroro town is
the presence of the Shiroro Dam which powers the Shiroro Hydro Electric Station, a 600 mega watts installed
capacity station. Both the Shiroro River and the dam water channel converge. The extent of flooding of Shiroro
Community when the river Shiroro bursts its banks (which often occurs) is serious. It is devastating when one or
two of the four spill ways of the dam is opened (as also occasionally happens). It is noteworthy that in the history
of the dam, the four spill ways have never been opened at the same time. It is feared that the entire Shiroro
Community may be submerged in the ensuing flooding.
5.0
Discussions of Findings,
5.1
Flood Risk Reduction Strategies in Shiroro Town
Flood risk reduction strategies in Shiroro town can be classified into two:Structural and nonstructural. Structural measures involve building of physical structures to avoid flooding of the
houses or part thereof. Non structural measures are the peoples behavioural responses to the threat of flood.
Unfortunately, while attention through structural and non structural measures are focused towards protecting
individual dwellings, little or nothing is being done to avoid flooding of the flood plain where the flood risk
originates. It appears as if the people have concluded that the flood risk cannot go away and have resolved to live
with it.
One interesting finding is the communal participation in selecting viable structural solutions to the flood risk.
After each flooding session (which takes place every rainy season or when the damâs spillways are opened), a
communal task force goes round to assess the viability of the resilience measures earlier put in place. Those
measures that did not measure up to the flood are discarded while those that served their purpose are continued
in the flood risk challenge.
Predictably, it was discovered that the vulnerability of the dwellings decreases with increasing distance from the
river channel. This much was also evident from the 2012 flood when dwellings nearer the river experienced
more flood damage than those further off. This was same on both sides of the river channel. Also terrain
elevations were a major factor. Houses whose terrain levels in relation to the river bed were high did not
experience much flooding even when they were close to the river bed.
5.2
Structural Measures
The focus of the structural measure is the use of local technology and expertise. In these measures, no real
planning goes into their implementation. They involve such actions that are rudimentary and require little or no
technical skills and can be achieved using very basic resources (financial, technological and human resources).
They are simply additions that result from impulsive responses to flood risk.
i.
Bye-Pass Channels and Floodways.
This involves using open channels to divert water elsewhere. These diversion systems serve two purposes: While
diverting water away from the houses, they channel the water towards water reservoirs or wetland areas for
wetland cultivation. The stored water could be used to water their livestock or domestic purpose.
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Though this measure is very effective in controlling flood risk, it has sever limitations. First, flood channels are
limited by topography. Secondly households living in low lying lands towards the end of the diverted water
become vulnerable to flooding. Thirdly, often the diverted water over flows the banks of the channel and flood
households and farmlands on both sides of the channel. Another very sever limitation to this protection system
is that it becomes extremely vulnerable to larger than normal floods and the water easily burst the banks of the
channels.
ii.
Flood Proofing
Flood proofing involves adjusting or modifying the design of individual structures to reduce flood damages.
Various flood proofing measures were observed:Elevation:
Raising the building above the flood by short mud piles (especially their
granaries)
Land Fill:
Filling up an areas of land with sand to create an elevated platform upon
which to erect building.
Flood walls:
Using sandcrete mortar to plaster mud walls to protect the mud walls from
soaking water.
Dry Flood Proofing:
Sealing the property to prevent flood water from entering using water proof
sheets, shields, sand bags and other materials that prevent water from entering.
Concrete Apron around mud wall bases: This was found particularly helpful in keeping flood water
away from wall bases that otherwise would soak and seep into the building.
Extended Roof Eaves:Extended roof over hangs were particularly helpful in keeping out rain water
from the mud walls thereby keeping water off the walls.
Limitations of Flood Proofing
Interactions with the community revealed a lot of limitations and disadvantages with flood proofing. First, when
the flood water is fast moving or violent as is often the case, most flood proofing measures fail. Secondly, they
complained about the labour involved with some flood proofing measures like landfill where they have to go and
fetch the right type of sand from afar and transport it on their heads. Again land fill flood proofing may divert
flood water causing flooding elsewhere. The conclusion was that flood proofing helps only in mild, low level
and non violent flood.
iii.
Demolition.
This involves demolishing a damaged property and rebuilding it more securely on the same site or on a safer
location.
5.3
Non Structural Measures
The non structural measures aim to keep people and their property away from floods
i Maintenance of a watershed.
A watershed is an area of land that drains water to a stream river or lake. It is normally an elevated area higher
than adjoining lands, normally dry as it is well drained. Such a watershed is kept and maintained by the Shiroro
Community.
By a communal agreement, farming is prohibited on this land. It is a communal land and belongs to nobody in
particular. In times of extreme weather conditions (sever flooding) the entire community and their livestock by
common consent assembly on this watershed, awaiting the receding of the flood water. When this happens, they
can go back to the houses, salvage whatever is salvageable, pick up the pieces of their lives and wait for another
flood.
ii.
Relocation
Even though this also involves temporarily moving away from the flooded area, it is different from moving to a
watershed as this one involves moving upland and building temporary homes in the new place, staying there for
days, even weeks if need be, waiting for the flood waters to recede.
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Mobile Chicken House:
As part of non structural measure, some of their chicken houses are not fixed on the ground. When there is a
flood threat, they are easily picked up and taken to a safer place, sometimes on the roof of their houses.
iv.
Closure of School:
As part of measures to avert losses due to flood, communal schools are often closed during threat of flood and
reopened when the threat ceases to exist.
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The research area of this study, Shiroro town presents an typical example of the nature of flood risk and flood
damages faced by riverine communities and communities along dam water channel. Here both the Shiroro river
and the Shiroro dam combine to present the town flooding hazardcape challenges of ponding, over land surface
run off, seepage, riverine/stream flooding, wetland flooding, storm water run-off and rain water leakage.
Though the main challenge is the conventional flooding caused by the river over flooding its banks and dam
water discharge, those other forms relatively overlooked for their insignificance in terms of scale (leakage,
ponding, seapage) often pose major discomfort and interruptions to households and they are the ones that occur
more frequently.
The findings showed that residents implemented different measures to their dwellings that assisted in reducing
the impact of the flood. Most of the measures were purpose made additions to their already built dwelling being
threatened by flood. The findings further confirm that building flood resilience dwellings is preferred by the
people to relocation. This is because as they put it, their livelihood revolves around the water: farming, fishing,
transport and ancestral history.
6.2
Recommendations.
The flood challenge in Shiroro town is an ever present threat that will not go away. Instead, climate change and
poor management of the countryâs inland water ways will exacerbate it. It therefore requires an integrated broad
based approach to manage. Government, the community, individuals and other stake holders like the dam
authorities must be involved.
A comprehensive flood risk assessment should be the starting point. Conceptualization of this assessment must
be broad based to include not only the physical dimensions of the threat, but also the social and economic
parameters. In this way, an all inclusive assessment that will cover all areas of the challenge will emerge.
The findings of this risk assessment should inform mitigation, preparedness, response and resilience strategies.
These strategies will involve both physical and nonphysical measures that consider local techniques as well as
social adjustments that include local and appropriate social protection mechanisms.
Risk reduction should follow risk assessment. Since floods cannot be eliminated, their impacts can be reduced
through appropriate planning and engineering solutions. In the case of Shiroro Community, better waterway
management and improved dam management will certainly reduce the flood risk.
Particularly important here is information and warning from the dam authorities. Impending release of water
information channels should be improved so that early warnings reach the district heads and community leaders
for instant dissemination to all in a clear language. District heads during the focused group discussion
complained that warning messages either reached them late, was often ambiguous or did not reach them at all.
Therefore warnings about dam water release should be communicated to the local community in a timely and
appropriate manner.
It is recommended here that ward councilors, ward committee members, community leaders, religious leaders
and residents association heads be appointed information point persons. These point persons should then
communicate the message to their broader community via town criers or runners that can go door to door with
the information.
A communal joint operations task force (JOTF) should be set up. This should be a rapid response task force that
is capable of co-ordinating responses to any perceived flood threat. Due to poverty, many households may be
unable to respond appropriately to a flood threat. This taskforce should be able to assist vulnerable households to
respond as appropriate.
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