Analyses of community willingness-to-pay and the influencing factors towards restoration of River Malaba floodplains
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2021
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Environmental Challenges
Abstract
The high productivity of soils along River Malaba floodplains and various functions (like,
transport and recreation) increase the desire for humankind settlement adjacent to floodplain
corridors. However, human life and property have unceasingly been destroyed by floods.
Strategies have been established to deal with floods but the problem still exists. This study
employed the double-bound dichotomous choice contingent valuation method to quantify the
community willingness-to-pay (WTP) and associated influencing factors for restoration of
River Malaba floodplains. Reconnaissance surveys, focus group discussions, key informant
interviews, observations study, and household questionnaires from 498 out of the targeted
550 respondents were employed in data collection. Among the adaptation strategies at
household and community level, the post-flood strategies were more efficient than those
practiced before- and during-floods. Among the suggested structural and non-structural
strategies, “embankment/river training structures” and “flood forecasting and early warning”
were highly preferred, respectively. The results revealed that 55% of the households
expressed WTP an individual amount between Uganda shillings (UGX) 5,000 (United States
Dollar, US$ 1.35) to UGX 500,000 (US$ 135.14), with a monthly average of UGX 97,080
(US$ 26.24). Total monthly amount would be UGX 38,249,500 (US$ 10,333.70) considering
the 498 households. Among the factors analysed, age, gender, marital status, education level,
occupation, household income, business affected, lost property due to floods, flooding a
major problem had significant (p<0.01) positive impact on WTP. This study findings are
pertinent in supporting stakeholders’ decision regarding predictive planning of flood
adaptation strategies in the study area.
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Floodplain, Contingent valuation, Willingness-to-pay, Regression model, River Malaba sub-catchment
Citation
Ambrose Mubialiwo , Adane Abebe , Charles Onyutha , Analyses of community willingness-to-pay and the influencing factors towards restoration of River Malaba floodplains, Environmental Challenges (2021), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100160