Household Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes Impacts and Population Dynamics: Case Study from the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-42922-9_5" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-42922-9_5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42922-9_5" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-42922-9_5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Household Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes Impacts and Population Dynamics: Case Study from the Czech Republic

Original language description

This chapter deals with the state of household adaptation strategies in a region frequently affected by climate extremes, specifically floods occurred from 1997 to 2012 in selected rural municipalities in the Bečva river basin in the North-Eastern part of the Czech Republic. We used quantitative methods, based on a survey of 605 households to find out ways of adaptation measures of household members, including potential for migration. The first, we found increased intensity and frequency of the impacts of climate extremes in the form of floods over the last two decades. Further, we recognized various responses to these extreme events applied by household, mainly some adaptation strategies outside houses, although our findings showed that households tend to repair damage instead of implementing costly adaptation measures. Our research also revealed that migration due to climate extremes did not play a significant role as an adaptation measure in the researched area, people moved out only in a few cases. In addition, our research showed a link between difficulty to migrate and some social consequences, meaning that the increasing occurrence of floods is a fairly serious problem for residents who cannot leave, even if they want to, because they had limited opportunities for resettlement. Nevertheless, we recognized commuting for work as a population dynamics adaptation strategy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Migration, Risk Management and Climate Change: Evidence and Policy Responses

ISBN

978-3-319-42920-5

Number of pages of the result

17

Pages from-to

87-103

Number of pages of the book

229

Publisher name

Springer Switzerland

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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