Abstract
Despite the complexity of risk assessment and human
security, they must be assessed to improve knowledge about the risk and
its potential human consequences in order to help society to better
understand the risks which it faces.
This thesis aimed to
improve understanding of flood disaster causative factors, risk profile
of the affected community and human security issues in Benin Niger River
Valley. A GIS-Base mapping and theory-driven indicator approach is
applied to map the risk profile of the affected community and analyse
the human insecurity dimension related to it. The result indicates that
people living within the Benin Niger River Valley are highly exposed to
flood hazard because almost eighty percent (80%) of its people and their
assets are located in the flood hazard pathway. All physical, economic,
social and vulnerability indicators chosen in the framework of this
study show that they are highly vulnerable.
The combination of
the flood hazard event, the exposure and the vulnerabilities to flood
yield in high disaster risk. Flood disasters result in deaths, injuries,
diseases, building collapses, disruption in socio-economic activities,
environmental pollution and biodiversity losses. Cleary, flood disasters
generate, humane insecurity.