TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hudson, Paul
A1  - Pham, My
A1  - Bubeck, Philip
T1  - An evaluation and monetary assessment of the impact of flooding on subjective well-being across genders in Vietnam
T2  - Climate & development
N2  - The intangible impacts of floods on welfare are not well investigated, even though they are important aspects of welfare. Moreover, flooding has gender based impacts on welfare. These differing impacts create a gender based flood risk resilience gap. We study the intangible impacts of flood risk on the subjective well-being of residents in central Vietnam. The measurement of intangible impacts through subjective well-being is a growing field within flood risk research. We find an initial drop in welfare through subjective well-being across genders when a flood is experienced. Male respondents tended to recover their welfare losses by around 80% within 5 years while female respondents were associated with a welfare recovery of around 70%. A monetization of the impacts floods have on an individual’s subjective well-being shows that for the average female respondent, between 41% to 86% of annual income would be required to compensate subjective well-being losses after 5 years of experiencing a flood. The corresponding value for males is 30% to 57% of annual income. This shows that the intangible impacts of flood risk are important (across genders) and need to be integrated into flood (or climate) risk assessments to develop more socially appropriate risk management strategies.
KW  - Subjective well-being
KW  - flood risk
KW  - welfare
KW  - gender
KW  - resilience
KW  - intangible impacts
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48490
SN  - 1756-5529
SN  - 1756-5537
VL  - 11
IS  - 7
SP  - 623
EP  - 637
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -