LIVELIHOOD SECURITY AND FLOOD RESILIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION

Abstract

Program highlights and key research areas include: climate hazards and early warning systems, disaster governance, policy  and risk management, multi-hazard  vulnerability and  risk assessment, remote sensing and  gis for disaster  mitigation, floods and droughts, community based  disaster risk reduction  and management. From a climate perspective, rainfall is  changing, with an increase in extreme  precipitation. In time, it is very likely that  extreme precipitation events will be more  frequent and more intense, particularly in  the midlatitudes and wet tropical regions of the world (IPCC, 2014). The IPCC indicates that increasing warming  may result in a larger fraction of the global  population being affected by major river floods. Based on the elaboration above, the Impact of  Flood in  Livelihood could be concluded that: first, Transformative Change resulted: 1) discovered evidence of an increasing migration  trend in a rural area of Cambodia over time  conversion of rice fields into aquaculture ponds  (Dang et al., 2021), 3)Cash economy as a source of households  livelihood (Morton & Olson, 2018), and 4) livelihood strategy has concentrated on a  smaller number of activities bringing immediate  or short-term returns