Flood risk management through a resilience lens

To prevent floods from becoming disasters, social vulnerability must be integrated into flood risk management. We advocate that the welfare of different societal groups should be included by adding recovery capacity, impacts of beyond-design events, and distributional impacts.To prevent floods from...

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Published inCommunications earth & environment Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors de Bruijn, Karin M., Jafino, Bramka A., Merz, Bruno, Doorn, Neelke, Priest, Sally J., Dahm, Ruben J., Zevenbergen, Chris, Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H., Comes, Tina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group 01.12.2022
Nature Portfolio
Subjects
Design events
Disaster management
Environmental risk
Flood management
Floods
Recovery
Risk management
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Summary:To prevent floods from becoming disasters, social vulnerability must be integrated into flood risk management. We advocate that the welfare of different societal groups should be included by adding recovery capacity, impacts of beyond-design events, and distributional impacts.To prevent floods from becoming disasters, social vulnerability must be integrated into flood risk management. This Comment advocates that the welfare of different societal groups should be included by adding recovery capacity, impacts of beyond-design events, and distributional impacts.
ISSN:2662-4435
2662-4435
DOI:10.1038/s43247-022-00613-4