Community-level responses to extreme flooding: the case of Brazilian Amazon ribeirinhos

Community Disaster Recovery

10.1017/9781009053457 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Deserai A. Crow ◽

Elizabeth A. Albright

Keyword(s):

Local Governments ◽

Disaster Response ◽

Disaster Recovery ◽

Community Level ◽

Policy Outcomes ◽

Focusing Events ◽

Future Events ◽

Individual Household ◽

Extreme Flooding

Disasters can serve as focusing events that increase agenda attention related to issues of disaster response, recovery, and preparedness. Increased agenda attention can lead to policy changes and organisational learning. The degree and type of learning that occurs within a government organization after a disaster may matter to policy outcomes related to individual, household, and community-level risks and resilience. Local governments are the first line of disaster response but also bear the burden of performing long-term disaster recovery and planning for future events. Crow and Albright present the first framework for understanding if, how, and to what effect communities and local governments learn after a disaster strikes. Drawing from analyses conducted over a five-year period following extreme flooding in Colorado, USA, Community Disaster Recovery: Moving from Vulnerability to Resilience presents a framework of community-level learning after disaster and the factors that catalyse policy change towards resilience.

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Tree mortality in a riparian forest at Rio Paraguai, Pantanal, Brazil, after an extreme flooding

Acta Botanica Brasilica ◽

10.1590/s0102-33062004000400014 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 839-846 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior ◽

João Semir ◽

Flavio Antonio Maës dos Santos ◽

Hermógenes de Freitas Leitão-Filho

Keyword(s):

Mortality Rate ◽

Tree Mortality ◽

Riparian Forest ◽

Total Mortality ◽

Community Level ◽

Extreme Floods ◽

Diameter At Breast Height ◽

Breast Height ◽

Extreme Flooding ◽

Topographic Positions

A study was conducted in a riparian forest (Rio Paraguai, Brazil) to verify the vegetation mortality after an exceptional flooding in 1995. Individuals with diameter at breast height > 5 cm were sampled in 108 (10×10m) plots in 1994, and re-sampled in 1996. The total mortality rate was 4.1% per year. The mortality increased with the increasing of topographic positions, at community level, suggesting that places where the flooding is less frequent are more affected by extreme floods.

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