Author’s Accepted Manuscript Rural households’ Flood preparedness and Social Determinants in Mwandi district of Zambia and Eastern Zambezi Region of Namibia Monde Patrina Mabuku, Aidan Senzanje, Maxwell Mudhara, Graham Jewitt, Wapulumuka Mulwafu www.elsevier.com/locate/ijdr
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To appear in: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Received date: 17 September 2016 Revised date: 5 March 2018 Accepted date: 7 March 2018 Cite this article as: Monde Patrina Mabuku, Aidan Senzanje, Maxwell Mudhara, Graham Jewitt and Wapulumuka Mulwafu, Rural households’ Flood preparedness and Social Determinants in Mwandi district of Zambia and Eastern Zambezi Region of Namibia, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.03.014 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS’ FLOOD PREPAREDNESS AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS IN MWANDI DISTRICT OF ZAMBIA AND EASTERN ZAMBEZI REGION OF NAMIBIA Monde Patrina Mabukua*, Aidan Senzanjea, Maxwell Mudharaa, Graham Jewitta, Wapulumuka Mulwafu b a College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa b Faculty of Social Science, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, P.O Box 280, Zomba, Malawi
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[email protected] *Corresponding author. Mobile no.:+27 786947322. Abstract In rural communities of Zambia and Namibia as in other parts of the world, floods are one of the most potentially destructive natural hazards to impact rural livelihoods. This makes it necessary to mitigate their negative impacts through rural households’ disaster preparedness. In Zambia and Namibia, very few studies have empirically investigated the rural households’ preparedness to flooding and how social capital influence disaster preparedness. The purpose of this case study was to examine the level of flood preparedness and how rural households’ social capital and characteristics influences flood preparedness in the study sites. A questionnaire survey of 207 randomly sampled households was conducted in the flood prone areas of eastern Zambezi region of Namibia and Mwandi district of Zambia. The study employed several additive scales to measure different social capitals and flood preparedness. Independent t-test results showed that Namibians had higher flood preparedness levels than Zambians (p
