- Title
- Influence of land cover, proximity to streams and household topographical location on flooding impact in informal settlements in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Dalu, Mwazvita
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M
- Creator
- Dalu, Tatenda
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182089
- Identifier
- vital:43799
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.12.009"
- Description
- Patterns of land use, household topographical location and state of natural vegetation influence the spatial distribution of flooding impact. Using field observations and GIS mapping techniques, we investigated how landscape factors influenced structural flooding impact in informal settlements. This study was carried out in the informal settlements of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, after the October 2012 floods. Increasing slope significantly raised the probability and level of damage by at least 30% in five of the seven sites, whereas proximity to river and wetlands (more than 100 m) was significant in only two of the sites and at lower levels. Multi-regression analysis highlighted that land cover, proximity to streams and household topographical location influenced the impact of flooding on housing structures. We found that the impact on housing structures in informal settlements during the floods were significantly influenced by their proximity to water bodies, slope factor and patterns of land cover.
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- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (10 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
- Relation
- Dalu, M.T., Shackleton, C.M. and Dalu, T., 2018. Influence of land cover, proximity to streams and household topographical location on flooding impact in informal settlements in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 28, pp.481-490
- Relation
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction volume 28 p. 481 2018 2212-4209
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- Closed Access
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Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
RU Department of Environmental Science
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 15. Life On Land
SDG 13. Climate Action
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