title: The 2011 flood event in the Mekong Delta: preparedness, response, damage and recovery of private households and small businesses.
abstract: Floods frequently cause substantial economic and human losses, particularly in developing countries. For the development of sound flood risk management schemes that reduce flood consequences, detailed insights into the different components of the flood risk management cycle, such as preparedness, response, flood impact analyses and recovery, are needed. However, such detailed insights are often lacking: commonly, only (aggregated) data on direct flood damage are available. Other damage categories such as losses owing to the disruption of production processes are usually not considered, resulting in incomplete risk assessments and possibly inappropriate recommendations for risk management. In this paper, data from 858 face-to-face interviews among flood-prone households and small businesses in Can Tho city in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta are presented to gain better insights into the damage caused by the 2011 flood event and its management by households and businesses.
authors.affiliation: PhD Student at the German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam and Geography Department, Humboldt University, Germany. chinhdo@gfz-potsdam.de.
authors.forename: Do Thi
authors.initials: do T
authors.lastname: Chinh
authors.affiliation: Researcher at the German Research Centre for Geosciences and is now at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Germany.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bubeck
authors.affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany.
authors.forename: Nguyen Viet
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Dung
authors.affiliation: Senior Researcher at the German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany.
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kreibich
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002160:Cambodia; D002947:Cities; D003132:Commerce; D003906:Developing Countries; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D055868:Floods; D006077:Government Agencies; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D058012:Small Business; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Can Tho; Mekong Delta; Vietnam; flood damage; flood loss; flood risk management; floods