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Socio-Economic Vulnerability To Floods Of Rural Households: Case Studies In The Danube River Meadow

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  • Marioara RUSU

    (Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest)

  • Violeta FLORIAN

    (Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest)

  • Elisabeta ROȘU

    (Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest)

Abstract

The present paper analyses the vulnerability to floods of households from two rural areas located in the Danube River Meadow: i) the communes Bistreț and Rast from Dolj county and ii) the communes Gostinu and Oinacu from Giurgiu county. The research method used was the survey and the research tool was the questionnaire applied by an interview operator. The SPSS software was used for data processing. The main objective of the study was to know the ability of rural households to get involved in crisis management, the natural vulnerability perception mechanisms, the ways to combine the economic and social systems for developing local strategies to combat natural risk. In conclusion, from the perspective of analysed rural households, it can be noticed that in the two investigated rural areas there are risk-induced behaviours, attitudes and options, depending on the specificity of each rural community and a mix of tradition and early modernization.

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  • Marioara RUSU & Violeta FLORIAN & Elisabeta ROȘU, 2020. "Socio-Economic Vulnerability To Floods Of Rural Households: Case Studies In The Danube River Meadow," Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Institute of Agricultural Economics, vol. 17(2), pages 213-225.
    • Handle: RePEc:iag:reviea:v:17:y:2020:i:2:p:213-225
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    Keywords

    vulnerability to floods; rural household; the Danube River Meadow;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • R29 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Other

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