Quick water vulnerability assessment in north and south Darfur

Dissertant

Hasan, Ahdi Hasan Muhammad

Thesis advisor

al-Sinnari, Adil Muhammad Ahmad

University

Omdurman Islamic University

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences and Technology

Department

Department of Information Systems

University Country

Sudan

Degree

Master

English Abstract

-The overarching theme of this work has been to enhance the gathering knowledge pertinent to peoples’ use of natural resources and contributing to the sustainability of the environmental management and livelihood security and developing a comprehensive understanding of spatialised environmental information that can be used to assist decision making.

The current research focuses on: 1.

Rapid, assessments of water vulnerability across North and South Darfur. 2.

A readily understandable representation of the drivers of vulnerability at any location (in a 16km grid) across North and South Darfur. The Quick Water Vulnerability Assessment (QWV) framework is founded on the definition outlined below, which have been applied at 16km x 16km cells across the entire study area.

"Vulnerability" is the extent to which a system may be impacted by a hazardous event to which it is exposed. Against this definitional context and based on the literature review, expert accounts and preliminary analysis of the data available to the research, the following factors were identified as the three major water vulnerability limiting factors across Darfur that could be mapped in the context of the research: 1.

Potential Rainfall Water Availability. 2.

Rainfall Unpredictability. 3.

Potential Underground Water Availability. Each of these three components was then assessed and quantified at each 16kmx16km cell across the study area. Once all limiting factors and the of the QWV framework were mapped, a North and South Darfur wide map of exposure to multiple hazards was created, by adding the hazard values at each cell.

Main Subjects

Earth Sciences, Water and Environment

Topics

• Water
• Sudan
• Darfur

No. of Pages

113

Table of Contents

• APA
• MLA
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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-364686