Does the Nature of Floods Matter in the Risk Perception of Households? A Comparative Assessment among the Rural Households Prone to Flash and Riverine Floods in Pakistan
Muhammad Yaseen,
Farman Ullah,
Supawan Visetnoi,
Shoukat Ali,
Shahab E. Saqib
Affiliations
Muhammad Yaseen
School of Agricultural Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Farman Ullah
CRIMEDIM–Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid, and Global Health, Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO), 28100 Novara, Italy
Supawan Visetnoi
School of Agricultural Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Shoukat Ali
Institute of Agricultural Extension, Education and Rural Development, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan
Shahab E. Saqib
Directorate of Commerce Education and Management Sciences, Higher Education, Archives and Libraries Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan
Floods have caused major losses and damages to people, infrastructure, and the environment. This study aims to assess the risk perception of households prone to riverine and flash floods and the perceived damages to infrastructure and livelihoods. Data were collected from 382 households through a questionnaire survey and analyzed using chi-squared and t-tests. Overall, risk perception was higher for riverine floods. Similarly, ‘flood coping capacities’, ‘livelihood disruption’, ‘change in lifestyle/adjusting to floods’, and ‘change in the relationship’ were also high for riverine floods and statistically significant (p-value p-value < 0.05). The perceptions of ‘livestock damages’ and ‘household damages’ were higher for flash floods.
