Assessing Flood-Related Vulnerability of the Urban Poor. In: Future Challenges of Cities in Asia
Hendricus Andy Simarmata
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Christoph Antweiler
Abstract
Urban poverty and floods are the foremost challenges for coastal cities of Southeast Asia. It is often assumed that the poor residents of a floodaffected area are mainly vulnerable. Yet, only few studies have placed flood-experienced people at the center of the vulnerability assessment. This chapter aims to explore who is vulnerable among the flood-affected urban poor and how they define flood-related vulnerability. We found that kampung residents use their flood experiences as a stock of knowledge to differentiate the level of vulnerability. Therefore, we suggest applying a life-world analysis to assess the state of vulnerability of an informal urban settlement and expect to identify the potentiality of the flood-experienced ones to organize transformative adaptation.
Simarmata H.A., Hornidge A.-K. and Antweiler C. (2020) Assessing Flood-Related Vulnerability of the Urban Poor. In: Bracken G., Rabé P., Parthasarathy R., Sami N. & Zhang B. (eds.). Future Challenges of Cities in Asia (pp. 183-208). 10.5117/9789463728812_ch08
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