- Title
- The potential use of natural resources in urban informal settlements as substitutes for financial capital during flooding emergencies
- Creator
- Dalu, Mwazvita
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179814
- Identifier
- vital:43191
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2018.03.002"
- Description
- Rapid and widespread land cover change and the subsequent loss of the buffering capacity provided by healthy ecosystems against natural hazards has resulted in increased vulnerability to natural hazards. There is an insufficient understanding of the natural resources contribution to the resilience of poor urban communities living in informal settlements and the financial implications thereof. Thus, household strategies used to recover from the October 2012 flood shock were investigated within the informal settlements of three small South African towns using questionnaires. Within the vulnerability paradigm and the sustainable livelihood framework, the study also quantified and evaluated the relative contribution of natural resources to recovery strategies and the impacts on household financial capital. We found that natural resources contributed up to 70% to recovery of households from the flood shock, most of this being to reconstruct housing structures after the flood. Factors such as household head education level, household income, kinship level, the extent of property damage and the cost associated with property rehabilitation significantly influenced the uptake of natural resources in recovery from floods, and this was variable among settlements and towns. The main findings showed that natural resources reduced household vulnerability of urban informal settlements by providing an emergency-net function that substitutes financial capital. Their inclusion in disaster management plans and responses has the potential to contribute to the sustainable livelihoods of the urban poor in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (10 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C
- Relation
- Dalu, M.T. and Shackleton, C.M., 2018. The potential use of natural resources in urban informal settlements as substitutes for financial capital during flooding emergencies. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 104, pp.18-27
- Relation
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C volume 104 p. 18 2018 1474-7065
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- Closed Access
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RU Department of Environmental Science
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 13. Climate Action
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
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