Human exposure to floods continues to increase, driven by changes in hydrology and land use. Adverse impacts amplify for socially vulnerable populations, who disproportionately inhabit flood-prone areas. This study explores the geography of flood exposure and social vulnerability in the conterminous United...
Flood risk assessment methods mainly consist of four steps, including: hazard assessment, exposure assessment, vulnerability assessment and risk assessment (Penning-Rowsell et al.2005b; Foudi et al.2015). Even though all of these steps are important in the flood risk assessment process, flood haz...
Nevertheless, adoption of participatory approaches in the water sector (see the section “Participation in Water Management”) can be traced to Flood Action Plan. Significance of Floodplain Natural Resources to Livelihoods Approaches and simplifications to livelihood analysis that assume undifferentiated...
Natural hazard events provide opportunities for policy change to enhance disaster risk reduction (DRR), yet it remains unclear whether these events actually fulfill this transformative role around the world. Here, we investigate relationships between the
the movement of resources, and the delivery of medical services). In addition, high-income countries canimplementpolicies that limit construction in flood-prone areas ormandatethe construction of more earthquake-resistant homes, office buildings, and other structures, thereby reducing the risk ofcrushing...
The main Apulian peculiarities are: the widespread prevalence of karstic features due to which the availability of water surface resources is low; groundwater resources being the main regional water source; landslide- and flood-prone areas are not negligible; many natural protected areas cover the ...
A semiempirical approach was adopted by [44] that produced a risk map by considering the flood susceptible areas with the aim to assess the vulnerability of the highways in the state of Santa Catarina (Brazil). In the present paper, the losses are computed on the basis of the percentage ...
1 The concept of flood risk map and its mapping procedure Flood risk management is the process for analysis and assessment of flood risks as well as to form and implement the disaster mitigation plans. Flood risk analysis is the basic work of flood risk assessment and management that can ...
“It makes economic, social and environmental sense to focus on reducing the risk of disasters happening, rather than pouring all resources into disaster relief and recovery,” she added. The global report was presented at a UN event in London convening insurance industry leaders and key stakeholde...
White also pointed out the importance of people’s awareness and perceptions of risk (White, 1945). White’s PhD students Robert Kates and Ian Burton took work on flood plain management further, and together these three founded an influential school of natural hazards studies within ge...