Does the Nature of Floods Matter in the Risk Perception of Households? A Comparative Assessment among the Rural Households Prone to Flash and Riverine Floods in Pakistan

Floods have caused major losses and damages to people, infrastructure, the environment. This study aims assess risk perception of households prone riverine flash floods perceived infrastructure livelihoods. Data were collected from 382 through a questionnaire survey analyzed using chi-squared t-tests. Overall, was higher for floods. Similarly, ‘flood coping capacities’, ‘livelihood disruption’, ‘change in lifestyle/adjusting floods’, relationship’ also high statistically significant (p-value < 0.05). The ‘likelihood future flood damages’ (mean values: 0.913 vs. 0.779), while ‘infrastructural showed same results. perceptions ‘livelihoods’ ‘economic loss’ greater ‘livestock ‘household