SOCIO-ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY TO FLOODS OF RURAL HOUSEHOLDS: CASE STUDIES IN THE DANUBE RIVER MEADOW

Marioara Rusu (), Violeta Florian and Elisabeta Roșu
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Marioara Rusu: Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Elisabeta Roșu: Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2020, vol. 17, issue 2, 213-225

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.

Keywords: vulnerability to floods; rural household; the Danube River Meadow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q54 R29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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