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Assessing the impacts of floods on non-home based business activities in Bwaise, Kampala
Kamugisha, Alphonse (2013) Assessing the impacts of floods on non-home based business activities in Bwaise, Kampala.
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| Abstract: | The main objective of this research was to assess the impacts of floods on non-home based business activities in Bwaise, Kamapala through the identification of business activities in the area, analysis of flood risk perceptions by the local people, assessing the vulnerability of business activities to floods in the area and identification of coping mechanisms employed by local people in dealing with flood related problems. This research tries to explore the vulnerability to flood of business activities based on local peoples’ perceptions of flood risk, experiences and knowledge on flood occurrence in the area. Through the use questionnaires, 90 business operators were interviewed and information provieded were used to analyse the effects of floods on their business activities. Generally the results show that most of the businesss activities in the area are small scale businesses. The identiffied business activities were classified into five business classes and it was found that the most common business class is small scale shops making up to 56% of the businesses in the area. Information provided on flood occurrence revealed that the area experiences small scale localized floods. Howver it was clear that though of floods in the are not so severe, their effects on business activities are tangible based on local peoples’perceptions. The existing coping mechanisms employed by both local people and government are discussed in this research. Though local business operators have tried the use of different mechanisms such as cleaning of drainage channels, raising foundations and entrances of the buildings etc, to minimize the effects of floods on their business activities in the area, it was found that government is doing relatively little to help the local people in dealing with floods. It can however be mentioned that the coping mechanisms in the area are not enough to address the flood issues and the cooperation between local community and the government is necesssary for proper and effective coping mechanisms in the the area. Key words: Flood hazard, flood risk perceptions, vulnerability assessment, business activities, flood impacts, coping mechanisms |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | ITC: Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation |
| Programme: | Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation MSc (75014) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/93992 |
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