The compounding impacts of Cyclone Idai and their implications for urban inequality
This investigation compared the consistency of access to resources and services pre- and post-Cyclone Idai, assessed the extent to which the consistency of access to these resources and services was correlated and investigated the implications of this compounded loss for rising inequality in the city. In March 2019, Cyclone Idai made landfall in Beira, Mozambique, and resulted in one of the deadliest weather-related disasters in Southern Africa.
The findings indicate that respondent households lost consistent access to several resources and services after Cyclone Idai, the loss of consistent access to those resources and services was correlated, and the compounded nature of that lost contributed to rising inequality in the city. These findings suggest that the households experienced compounded (co-occurring) losses in the consistency of their access to each of the identified resources and services, potentially predisposing the sampled households to further vulnerability, and rising inequality, in the wake of Cyclone Idai.
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