Armand Ketcha Malan Kablan|Kouassi Dongo|Mamadou Coulibaly
Assessment of Social Vulnerability to Flood in Urban Côte d’Ivoire Using the MOVE Framework
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny|Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny|Swiss Centre for Scientific Research|University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
coupled poor urban development increasing urban population many subsaharan african countries subject recurrent severe flooding episodes response flood events focus often put slums precarious urban settings social implications floods affect variety social classes presenting case study cocody district abidjan cte divoire known countrys highest number floodimpacted people paper evaluates social vulnerability urban cte divoire flooding using move framework move framework method improvement vulnerability assessment europe successfully used european contexts assess social vulnerability urban areas geoenvironmental disasters floods helped assess major factors involved social vulnerability urban flooding good appreciation spatial distribution areas vulnerable urban flood taking framework local context relevant indicators developed gis applications used assess spatially relative social vulnerability cocody subdistricts urban flooding results revealed many subdistricts cocody highly vulnerable urban floods exposure susceptibility components found high influence vulnerability flood hazard district cocody respective indicators need addressed properly order increase residents resilience urban flooding move theoretical framework applied africa contextualizing vulnerability using local indicators