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Floods in megacity environments: vulnerability and coping strategies of slum dwellers in Dhaka/Bangladesh

Braun, Boris; Aßheuer, Tibor - In: Natural Hazards 58 (2011) 2, pp. 771-787

In many megacities of the global south, the combination of rapid population growth and high pressure on space for housing, results in urban growth taking place in areas particularly prone to natural hazards. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is no exception to this rule. Many marginal...

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Coping strategies with floods in Bangladesh: an empirical study

Sultana, Nayeem; Rayhan, Md. - In: Natural Hazards 64 (2012) 2, pp. 1209-1218

and income deficiency. This study shows a model based analysis on the research question, ‘what coping strategies are …. A censored tobit model analysis shows that households initiate coping with borrowing money after the realization of …

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Determinants of farmers’ choice of coping and adaptation measures to the drought hazard in northwest Balochistan, Pakistan

Ashraf, Muhammad; Routray, Jayant; Saeed, Muhammad - In: Natural Hazards 73 (2014) 3, pp. 1451-1473

This study identifies the coping and adaptation behavior of the farm households and also examines the factors that … fortitude in coping with the impacts of drought on their agro-based practices and employed several adaptation initiatives both …

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The diversity of resilience: contributions from a social science perspective

Lorenz, Daniel - In: Natural Hazards 67 (2013) 1, pp. 7-24

this, three capacities of social systems (adaptive, coping, and participative) that constitute resilience are presented … the coping capacity is the system’s property of coping with calamitous processes that occurred in the past. The …

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Quantifying household social resilience: a place-based approach in a rapidly transforming community

Henly-Shepard, Sarah; Anderson, Cheryl; Burnett, Kimberly; … - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 1, pp. 343-363

, and coping and adaptive capacity measures. Results showed that residents exhibit medium-to-high coping and adaptive … differential coping and adaptive capacities among households with varying characteristics (e.g., sex of head of household …

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