Abstract
AbstractSocial inequalities lead to flood resilience inequalities across social groups, a topic that requires improved documentation and understanding. The objective of this paper is to attend to these differences by investigating self‐stated flood recovery across genders in Vietnam as a conceptual replication of earlier results from Germany. This study employs a regression‐based analysis of 1,010 respondents divided between a rural coastal and an urban community in Thua Thien‐Hue province. The results highlight an important set of recovery process‐related variables. The set of relevant variables is similar across genders in terms of inclusion and influence, and includes age, social capital, internal and external support after a flood, perceived severity of previous flood impacts, and the perception of stress‐resilience. However, women were affected more heavily by flooding in terms of longer recovery times, which should be accounted for in risk management. Overall, the studied variables perform similarly in Vietnam and Germany. This study, therefore, conceptually replicates previous results suggesting that women display slightly slower recovery levels as well as that psychological variables influence recovery rates more than adverse flood impacts. This provides an indication of the results' potentially robust nature due to the different socio‐environmental contexts in Germany and Vietnam.
Highlights
Flooding has a large impact on humanity resulting in concerted flood risk management efforts
The set of relevant variables is similar across genders in terms of inclusion and influence, and includes age, social capital, internal and external support after a flood, perceived severity of previous flood impacts, and the perception of stress-resilience
The role of these variables can differ across social groups due to social inequalities and interactions, for example, Cutter (2017), or how people subjectively position themselves within society based on gender stereotypes (Hebert et al, 1997; Sigmon et al, 2005) and how different respondents consider the subjective recovery process differently
Summary
Flooding has a large impact on humanity resulting in concerted flood risk management efforts. The role of these variables can differ across social groups due to social inequalities and interactions, for example, Cutter (2017), or how people subjectively position themselves within society based on gender stereotypes (Hebert et al, 1997; Sigmon et al, 2005) and how different respondents consider the subjective recovery process differently. These multifaceted interactions create a complex situation to studying self-stated flood recovery. This complex concept requires additional research and replication to provide a deeper initial understanding of what drives self-stated flood recovery and can contribute to future studies and flood management practices
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