Climate induced riverbank erosion and flood hazards effects on riverine flood-prone Bait and Riverbank community of Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

Abstract In global perspective, in current decades the intensity of climatic dynamics have elevated disasters incidence of floods and riverbank erosion. Farming community mainly resides in flood prone locality has happen to more susceptible owing to destruction of these repeated climate induced disasters. The purpose of this research work is to examine the influence of Indus River current tendency of shifting course with raising outcomes of floods and riverbank erosion on living of Bait and riverbank areas community in Pakistan. The study applied both secondary and primary date even as applied random sampling approach to collecting the primary data of 380 households from Bait and riverbank area. This research work used satellite images from 2000 to 2022 for analysis procedure; it is pragmatic as Indus River course continuing to shifting eastern side and is eroding villages in succession. Study area inhabited households are confronted with multidimensional obstructions to sustaining their livelihood and households in the homeland. Frequent land losses due to riverbank erosion enforce each year majority of households to displace from their native areas. Inadequate access of resettlement space and lack of other public support disaster mitigation mechanism make it unfeasible to get better from dreadful circumstances of susceptible inhabited population. Construction of embankment, criss-cross embankment pillars, sandbags and boulder pitching to protect inhabited population from forthcoming floods and riverbank collapses strategy measures initiated by Government to reduce sever influence of hazards. Outcomes of such government protective measures remained unsatisfied due to inappropriate implementation such strategies. Local based appropriate rehabilitation programmes and quick work need to focus for riverbank erosion and flood affected inhabitants to maintain the sustainability of their livelihood.