Vulnerability to flooding: health and social dimensions

Vulnerability to flooding: health and social dimensions

This paper presents research results on the impacts that floods can have on the people affected, thus complementing the existing data on the monetary losses liable to occur in flood events. Both datasets should be used when deciding on investment in flood defence measures. We report on research on t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences physical, and engineering sciences, 2002-07, Vol.360 (1796), p.1511-1525
Hauptverfasser: Tapsell, S. M., Penning-Rowsell, E. C., Tunstall, S. M., Wilson, T. L.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Communities
Community
Disaster relief
Disasters
Flood damage
Floods
Focus groups
Freshwater
Health
Health benefits
Health hazards
Health Status Indicators
Humans
Impacts
Life Change Events
Older adults
Parents
Public Health
Public Opinion
Research universities
Risk Assessment - methods
Risk Factors
Social Change
Social Environment
Socioeconomic Factors
Stress, Psychological - prevention & control
United Kingdom
Vulnerability
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Zusammenfassung:This paper presents research results on the impacts that floods can have on the people affected, thus complementing the existing data on the monetary losses liable to occur in flood events. Both datasets should be used when deciding on investment in flood defence measures. We report on research on the vulnerability of flood-affected communities to adverse health effects, and the development of an index of community vulnerability based on extensive focus-group research and secondary-source census data.
ISSN:1364-503X
1471-2962
DOI:10.1098/rsta.2002.1013