TITLE:
Critical Factors of Vulnerability That Enable Medina Gounass (Dakar/Senegal) to Adapt against Seasonal Flood Events
AUTHORS:
Ousmane Diouf Sané, Amadou Thierno Gaye, Moussa Diakhaté, Mawuli Aziadekey
KEYWORDS:
Factors, Vulnerability, Medina Gounass, Adaptation, Flood
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geographic Information System,
Vol.8 No.4,
August
3,
2016
ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on people living in Medina Gounass
where has been experiencing annually flood events during the rainy season. Besides
the climatic conditions, the lack of formal amenity plan has led to the emergence
of highly vulnerable urban communities, particularly through informal settlements
and inadequate land management. Flood has disrupted their livelihood and caused
huge loss of properties. Thus, inhabitants have a long experience of flood events.
The study was carried out to assess critical aspects that led Medina Gounass inhabitants
vulnerable to flood. Consequently, people in the study area have been practicing
various methods at household to mitigate the probable losses. The study found that
flood adaptation measures can be made more effective through community initiatives
and their participation than at household level which sometimes causes harm in the
neighborhood. Structural and non-structural flood management approach seems to be
more efficient to alleviate Medina Gounass inhabitants from the flood problems.