ABSTRACT
Low-income unplanned settlements, such as peri-urban areas, with poor drainage infrastructures are vulnerable to the effects of flooding and are exposed to risks of water-related disease outbreaks. This research endeavours to assess the problems in the actions and strategies in disaster management governance to coherently address flooding disasters and public health aspects, using a Straussian Grounded Theory approach. Four key phenomena are established that needs enhancement to improve disaster management with adaptive robustness for peri-urban areas. These include: cultural behaviour of public institutions towards flood disasters; non-peri-urban area-specific viability of flood disaster management; effect of interdependencies among institutions in flood disaster management governance; and the necessity of community participation as part of flood disaster management. These observable phenomena help explain consequential paradigms that provide a premise for decision-makers, policy makers, and planning authorities to structure adaptive implementation strategies to address peri-urban concerns with regards to flooding disasters and public-health.
