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In response to the increasing frequency and economic damages of natural\uddisasters globally, disaster risk management has evolved to incorporate risk\udassessments that are multi-dimensional, integrated and metric-based. This is\udto support knowledge-based decision making and hence sustainable risk\udreduction. In Malawi and most of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), however, flood\udrisk studies remain focussed on understanding causation, impacts,\udperceptions and coping and adaptation measures. Using the IPCC Framework,\udthis study has quantified and profiled risk to flooding of rural, subsistent\udcommunities in the Lower Shire Valley, Malawi. Flood risk was obtained by\udintegrating hazard and vulnerability. Flood hazard was characterised in\udterms of flood depth and inundation area obtained through hydraulic\udmodelling in the valley with Lisflood-FP, while the vulnerability was\udindexed through analysis of exposure, susceptibility and capacity that were\udlinked to social, economic, environmental and physical perspectives. Data on\udthese were collected through structured interviews of the communities. The\udimplementation of the entire analysis within GIS enabled the visualisation\udof spatial variability in flood risk in the valley. The results show\udpredominantly medium levels in hazardousness, vulnerability and risk. The\udvulnerability is dominated by a high to very high susceptibility. Economic\udand physical capacities tend to be predominantly low but social capacity is\udsignificantly high, resulting in overall medium levels of capacity-induced\udvulnerability. Exposure manifests as medium. The vulnerability and risk\udshowed marginal spatial variability. The paper concludes with\udrecommendations on how these outcomes could inform policy interventions in the Valley

A metric-based assessment of flood risk and vulnerability of rural communities in the Lower Shire Valley, Malawi