Author(s)

Ousmane Diouf Sané^1*, Amadou Thierno Gaye², Moussa Diakhaté², Mawuli Aziadekey³

¹Université de Lomé, WASCAL, Département de Géographie, Lomé, Togo.
²Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Laboratoire de Physique de l’Atmosphère et de l’Océan Siméon Fongang (LPAOSF), Dakar-Fann, Sénégal.
³Université de Lomé, Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie, Lomé, Togo.

This paper is about the assessment of social vulnerability (SV) as a critical component of comprehensive disaster risk assessment. This study was conducted in Medina Gounass Dakar, Senegal, to bring out evidence that flooding was a threat to human security. The aim of this present study is to assess the social vulnerability to flood in Medina Gounass. Survey was carried out using structured questionnaires drawn on one hundred randomly selected households. For vulnerability assessment, the Methods for the Improvement of Vulnerability Assessment in Europe (MOVE) framework and Arc GIS are used to characterize vulnerability through three key factors, namely, 1) exposure, 2) susceptibility, and 3) lack of resilience. As a result, Medina Gounass inhabitants have a particular relationship with the place they have been living for decades. Although facing diseases and many challenges in their everyday life, people actually resist the government’s relocation projects because of their symbolic relationship with the area.

Assessment, Flood, Social Vulnerability, Medina Gounass

Sané, O. , Gaye, A. , Diakhaté, M. and Aziadekey, M. (2015) Social Vulnerability Assessment to Flood in Medina Gounass Dakar. Journal of Geographic Information System, 7, 415-429. doi: 10.4236/jgis.2015.74033.