Correlates of flood preparedness in urban households: Evidence from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana
The annual floods in cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are exacerbated by the impacts of climate change. For coastal cities double flood burden from storms and sea level rise are phenomenal and in response, data is gradually emerging on the exposure of urban areas and households’ adaptation of which popu...
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| author | Daniel Kwabena Twerefou Ernest Adu Owusu Delali Benjamin K. Dovie |
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| description | The annual floods in cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are exacerbated by the impacts of climate change. For coastal cities double flood burden from storms and sea level rise are phenomenal and in response, data is gradually emerging on the exposure of urban areas and households’ adaptation of which population determinants are mostly omitted. This paper uses a household survey of flood experiences, analyzed with the Tobit model to understand the social and demographic factors that drive households' preparedness for floods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana. Findings show that the age and income of the household head and planned adaptation significantly increased the likelihood of households’ preparedness for floods. While community access to financial assistance reduced the likelihood of household preparedness, membership in social support groups and the availability of community-level social amenities and shelters increased the likelihood of household preparedness by 0.81 units (p<0.05), 1.72 units (p<0.01) and 1.33 units (p<0.01) respectively. Therefore, enhanced education and awareness of flood risks are major factors of flood disaster risk reduction amidst neighborhood networks towards scaling the relevance of anticipatory flood contingency planning in coastal urban planning and management and a recipe for mainstreaming the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-350fc85a05f54bcc91a08d1a7c7cbed12023-05-14T04:30:06ZengElsevierEnvironmental Challenges2667-01002023-04-0111100706Correlates of flood preparedness in urban households: Evidence from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of GhanaDaniel Kwabena Twerefou0Ernest Adu Owusu1Delali Benjamin K. Dovie2Department of Economics, University of Ghana, P. O. Box LG 57, Accra, Ghana; Corresponding author.Department of Economics, University of Ghana, P. O. Box LG 57, Accra, GhanaRegional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, P. O. Box LG 96, Accra, GhanaThe annual floods in cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are exacerbated by the impacts of climate change. For coastal cities double flood burden from storms and sea level rise are phenomenal and in response, data is gradually emerging on the exposure of urban areas and households’ adaptation of which population determinants are mostly omitted. This paper uses a household survey of flood experiences, analyzed with the Tobit model to understand the social and demographic factors that drive households' preparedness for floods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana. Findings show that the age and income of the household head and planned adaptation significantly increased the likelihood of households’ preparedness for floods. While community access to financial assistance reduced the likelihood of household preparedness, membership in social support groups and the availability of community-level social amenities and shelters increased the likelihood of household preparedness by 0.81 units (p<0.05), 1.72 units (p<0.01) and 1.33 units (p<0.01) respectively. Therefore, enhanced education and awareness of flood risks are major factors of flood disaster risk reduction amidst neighborhood networks towards scaling the relevance of anticipatory flood contingency planning in coastal urban planning and management and a recipe for mainstreaming the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010023000288Coastal landscapeDemographic statusHouseholdsPlanned adaptationSocial capitalUrbanization |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Kwabena Twerefou Ernest Adu Owusu Delali Benjamin K. Dovie Correlates of flood preparedness in urban households: Evidence from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana Environmental Challenges Coastal landscape Demographic status Households Planned adaptation Social capital Urbanization |
| title | Correlates of flood preparedness in urban households: Evidence from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana |
| title_full | Correlates of flood preparedness in urban households: Evidence from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Correlates of flood preparedness in urban households: Evidence from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Correlates of flood preparedness in urban households: Evidence from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana |
| title_short | Correlates of flood preparedness in urban households: Evidence from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana |
| title_sort | correlates of flood preparedness in urban households evidence from the greater accra metropolitan area of ghana |
| topic | Coastal landscape Demographic status Households Planned adaptation Social capital Urbanization |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010023000288 |
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