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Socio-Economic Assessment Approaches for Improving Flood Resilience
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Socio-Economic Assessment Approaches for Improving Flood Resilience

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 2808

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Christophe Viavattene

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Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, London NW4 4BT, UK
Interests: GIS; water resources management; flood; surface water; groundwater; extreme events; environment
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Dr. Sally Priest

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Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT, UK
Interests: flood risk management; governance; flood insurance and recovery mechanisms; social vulnerability; resilience

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The development of a set of appropriate indicators is required for assessing the flood vulnerability of the population and informing flood risk management decisions to promote resilience. Social vulnerability and resilience are contested and evolving terms, this special issue does not attempt to provide a single definition of them but to reflect on the current trends in investigating socio-economic differences between areas at risk. Papers may focus on different scales including household, community or population level. The special issue focuses on the development of frameworks, characterisations and/or development of indicators and how they may inform decisions and be integrated into existing evaluation frameworks. Whereas the assessment should be on the socio-economic characteristics, papers considering as well biophysical and systemic components in the evaluation are welcomed.

Dr. Christophe Viavattene
Dr. Sally Priest
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • flooding
  • social vulnerability, resilience, assessment
  • decision-making

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Evaluation of Social Vulnerability to Flood Hazard in Basilicata Region (Southern Italy)
by Isabella Lapietra, Angela Rizzo, Rosa Colacicco, Pierfrancesco Dellino and Domenico Capolongo
Water 2023, 15(6), 1175; https://doi.org/10.3390/w15061175 - 18 Mar 2023
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Abstract
Floods are the most common natural hazards causing damage to properties and loss of life worldwide. They are not preventable but vulnerability assessments, hazard mitigation, and effective emergency management plans can reduce their impacts and facilitate recovery actions. Floods can have different impacts [...] Read more.
Floods are the most common natural hazards causing damage to properties and loss of life worldwide. They are not preventable but vulnerability assessments, hazard mitigation, and effective emergency management plans can reduce their impacts and facilitate recovery actions. Floods can have different impacts depending on the local physical conditions and on the social context represented by the economic and cultural patterns of a specific community. Social vulnerability is the susceptibility of social groups to the adverse impacts of natural hazards, including disproportionate death, injury, loss, or disruption of livelihood. Therefore, the social vulnerability analysis becomes of primary importance in understanding the main factors influencing the capacity of a specific community to anticipate, cope with, and recover from a flood event. In this context, this paper investigates the correlation between flood hazard and socio-economic factors across the Basilicata Region (southern Italy). The aim of this research is to evaluate flood hazard and social vulnerability index through a Geographic Information System (GIS) approach. Multivariate factor analysis was applied in this work to construct an overall social vulnerability index which was combined with the flood hazard distribution. Our results underline the presence of 107,587 people with a high level of both flood hazard and social vulnerability. Full article
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