What is it about?
Flood impacts everyone, either poor or rich. However, it seems it is only the poor that are vulnerable to flood. This paper uses the MOVE framework to assess the social vulnerability of an urban area to flood. This area is Cocody, a district of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, known to have the country’s highest number of flood-impacted people.
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Why is it important?
Flood affects a variety of social classes. This study has shown that both the poor and the rich are vulnerable to flood in different extends. Exposure and susceptibility are components that are found to have a high influence on vulnerability to flood hazard in the district of Cocody. The MOVE theoretical framework can be applied in Africa by contextualizing the vulnerability by using local indicators.
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The authors would like to express their gratitude to the population and authorities of Cocody and to thank them for their collaboration in data collection. It was a great pleasure to have an article with great scientists such as Dongo Kouassi and Mamadou Coulibaly. This article leads to raising awareness that when it comes to disaster, all social classes are concerned.
Armand Ketcha Malan Kablan
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan
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This page is a summary of: Assessment of Social Vulnerability to Flood in Urban Côte d’Ivoire Using the MOVE Framework, Water, April 2017, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/w9040292.
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