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This study aims at understanding flood risks and their impact on a community, in order to enhance communities’ resilience and adaptive capacity to these threats. It also investigates the possibility of looking at and handling risk from a resilience point of view. Therefore, while a conventional risk management process is employed in this study, social, physical, economic, and institutional dimensions of resilience are also included in order to grasp the extent of risks and the ways in which communities face, cope with, and recover from flooding. Findings showed that there was no significant difference in the perception of flood risk among household heads educated up to secondary school level, suggesting that they believe floods are purely natural events. Those with a higher level of education (high school and above) (82.7 % of respondents) were aware that flood disasters are the result of hazard and vulnerability combined. In addition, social dynamics were apparently strengthened by such disasters, which resulted in cohesion and mutual help following floods in some wards. Also, households with more sources of income and more savings appear to recover faster than others after a flooding event. With regard to governance and networks, greater efforts have to be made by local institutions to ensure basic functioning during and after disaster events and to invest more into risk reduction activities. However, further studies need to be conducted to clarify the understanding of the impact flood disasters have on the environment and community lives and livelihoods in general, as traditional coping strategies, although still practical, no longer suffice in the face of changes in climate and environment.
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Conducted by Vietnam Competitiveness Initiatives (VNCI) and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry. There are ten sub-indices for the Provincial Competitiveness Index: Entry Costs, Land Access and Security of Tenure, Transparency, Time Costs of Regulatory Compliance, Informal Charges, SOE Bias (Competition Environment), Pro-activity, Private Sector Development Service, Labour Training and Development, Legal Institution. (http://www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/VN_PCI2006Report.pdf)
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The first author gratefully acknowledges the research grant provided by the Global COE (Centre of Excellence) Program “Global Eco-Risk Management from Asian Viewpoints” at Yokohama National University. Special thanks are also addressed to the People’s Committee of Danang City, Vietnam as well as local research assistants and surveyors for their supports during data collection. The first author also acknowledges the supports from the International Environment and Disaster Management Lab. at Kyoto University.
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Razafindrabe, B.H.N., Kada, R., Arima, M. et al. Analyzing flood risk and related impacts to urban communities in central Vietnam. Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change 19, 177–198 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-012-9433-z
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