Community Resilience To Flood Disaster In Ratukhola Watershed Mahottari District, Nepal

Abstract

The idea of resilience is getting increasing attention among researchers, policymakers and experts. Abundant frameworks have been introduced and papers conscripted, and projects formulated to build community resilience. As a result, this is being undertaken in the various community of Nepal as well. This study addressed the issue of flood vulnerability and resilience at the level of communities residing along with Ratu watershed, Mahottari Nepal. This study sets out to analyze the community resilience to flood disasters in the Ratu watershed of Nepal based on the Disaster Resilience of Place (DROP). This study introduces resilience as an active process varying with antecedent conditions, disaster severity, and exogenous variable effects. Although resilience is supposed to be adaptive, immediately before the disaster, recovery level results in the static modeling of the antecedent conditions. The local community has been facing floods since the time of their ancestors, so they have exceeded their absorptive capacity. Similarly, the recurring impact of floods decreases the economic capability to bounce back from the following flood event and thus becomes ever more challenging to recover. In the same manner, the community learnings from the hazard event and the opportunity to improve mitigation and preparedness are very limited, the community is not able to increase their inherent resilience and capacity before the next event.