Does Previous Experience of Floods Stimulate the Adoption of Coping Strategies? Evidence from Cross Sectional Surveys in Nigeria and Tanzania

摘要: In sub-Saharan Africa, hydro-meteorological related disasters, such as floods, account for the majority of total number natural disasters. Over past century, floods have affected 38 million people, claimed several lives and caused substantial economic losses in region. The goal this paper is to examine how personality disposition, social network, socio-demographic factors mitigate complex relationship between stressful life experiences ocean surges adoption coping strategies among coastal communities Nigeria Tanzania. Generalized linear models (GLM) were fitted cross-sectional survey data on 1003 1253 individuals three contiguous areas Tanzania, respectively. Marked differences type observed across two countries. zero-order relationships age, employment income disappeared at multivariate level. Only experience year network resources significant predictors participants’ strategies, unlike Nigeria, where a plethora one year, education, flood ethnicity, income, housing quality status still statistically Our findings suggest that influence previous spatially ubiquitous. Consequently, context-specific policies aimed encouraging flood-related vulnerable locations should be designed based local needs orientation.