Author: Susan Parajuli
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-13-09
Year: 2013
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2013
Examination Committee: Jayant Kumar Routray (Chairperson); Gopal B. Thapa, M. M. Ahmad (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Flood has set the record of highest economic loss among the list of disasters in Nepal. The study has made an attempt to realize the overall economic impacts of flood after using different coping strategies by the rural affected migrant and non – migrant households. The study is based on data collected from 80 households in a Terai district, Mahottari, low land areas of Nepal. Questionnaire survey, interviews and case st udies conducted with the flood affected migrant and non – migrant households, located in the Gauribas, Maisthan and Khyarmara VDCs of Mahottari have lead to some meaningful implications regarding the income of both type of households, their loss due to flood, their coping strategies like seasonal migration, alternative sources of income generation etc. and the factors influencing them. The inferences drawn from the study indicates that the flood has extensively affected the economic condition of the vulnerable h ouseholds. Agricultural land erosion and degradation were the main affected parts that the surveyed households had to face. The significant loss in 6 years record could not be recovered still by using different coping techniques by the households. Yet, inco me and loss wise, migrant households had to suffer more compared to non – migrant households. Even choosing to cope by migrating was not the satisfactory decision the migrants took because the statistical result using T – test points out that non – migrant house – holds obtained higher income by using different coping strategies within the area. Less income before flood, more amount of loss added with less income after flood increases vulnerability of the migrant households to disaster like flood. Flood has changed th e major occupation of both the households from agriculture to other income generating alternatives. Both type of households have st
Scholarship Donor(s): Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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