气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Participatory adaptation to climate extremes: An assessment of households’ willingness to contribute labor for flood risk mitigation in Pakistan

CCPortal

DOI	10.2166/wcc.2016.002
	Participatory adaptation to climate extremes: An assessment of households’ willingness to contribute labor for flood risk mitigation in Pakistan
	Abbas A.; Amjath-Babu T.S.; Kächele H.; Müller K.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	20402244
起始页码	621
结束页码	636
卷号	7 期号:3
英文摘要	The predicted increase in frequency and severity of flooding events poses substantial challenges for the farming communities of developing countries. Given the financial limitations of governments in these countries, the concept of participatory flood management is of high relevance. This article studies how communities can participate in structural measures such as embankments/dikes. Given that surplus rural labor is available due to the seasonal nature of agricultural operations, this paper utilizes a field survey for exploring the willingness to contribute (WTC) labor by rural households in Pakistan towards a hypothetical flood-protection scheme. Results show a potential labor contribution of 11.07 man-days per year per household (equivalent to Rs. 4,084 or 39 USD). The WTC decision is positively influenced by the number of adult family members, livestock damage, compensation received and expected effectiveness of the intervention, but is negatively influenced by age and education of the household head, farm income and the distance of the farm from the river. The study concludes that community resources (e.g., manual labor) can be utilized for flood mitigation, which may reduce the costs of building and maintaining the infrastructure while increasing the sense of security and ownership. This would also ensure the sustainability of flood protection interventions to a considerable extent. © IWA Publishing 2016.
英文关键词	Adaptation; Climate; Contingent valuation methodology; Disaster; Efficacy; Intervention
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agriculture; Developing countries; Disasters; Economic analysis; Flood control; Office buildings; Risk assessment; Adaptation; Climate; Contingent valuations; Efficacy; Intervention; Floods; adaptive management; climate change; contingent valuation; developing world; extreme event; flood control; flooding; hazard management; labor; local participation; rural population; Pakistan
来源期刊	Journal of Water and Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/148151
作者单位	Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Str. 84, Müncheberg, 15374, Germany; University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Abbas A.,Amjath-Babu T.S.,Kächele H.,等. Participatory adaptation to climate extremes: An assessment of households’ willingness to contribute labor for flood risk mitigation in Pakistan[J],2016,7(3).
APA	Abbas A.,Amjath-Babu T.S.,Kächele H.,&Müller K..(2016).Participatory adaptation to climate extremes: An assessment of households’ willingness to contribute labor for flood risk mitigation in Pakistan.Journal of Water and Climate Change,7(3).
MLA	Abbas A.,et al."Participatory adaptation to climate extremes: An assessment of households’ willingness to contribute labor for flood risk mitigation in Pakistan".Journal of Water and Climate Change 7.3(2016).