What helps people recover from floods?
- The number of people exposed to natural hazards has grown steadily over recent decades, mainly due to increasing exposure in hazard-prone areas. In the future, climate change could further enhance this trend. Still, empirical and comprehensive insights into individual recovery from natural hazards are largely lacking, hampering efforts to increase societal resilience. Drawing from a sample of 710 residents affected by flooding across Germany in June 2013, we empirically explore a wide range of variables possibly influencing self-reported recovery, including flood-event characteristics, the circumstances of the recovery process, socio-economic characteristics, and psychological factors, using multivariate statistics. We found that the amount of damage and other flood-event characteristics such as inundation depth are less important than socio-economic characteristics (e.g., sex or health status) and psychological factors (e.g., risk aversion and emotions). Our results indicate that uniform recovery efforts focusing on areas that wereThe number of people exposed to natural hazards has grown steadily over recent decades, mainly due to increasing exposure in hazard-prone areas. In the future, climate change could further enhance this trend. Still, empirical and comprehensive insights into individual recovery from natural hazards are largely lacking, hampering efforts to increase societal resilience. Drawing from a sample of 710 residents affected by flooding across Germany in June 2013, we empirically explore a wide range of variables possibly influencing self-reported recovery, including flood-event characteristics, the circumstances of the recovery process, socio-economic characteristics, and psychological factors, using multivariate statistics. We found that the amount of damage and other flood-event characteristics such as inundation depth are less important than socio-economic characteristics (e.g., sex or health status) and psychological factors (e.g., risk aversion and emotions). Our results indicate that uniform recovery efforts focusing on areas that were the most affected in terms of physical damage are insufficient to account for the heterogeneity in individual recovery results. To increase societal resilience, aid and recovery efforts should better address the long-term psychological effects of floods.…
Verfasserangaben: | Philip BubeckORCiDGND, Annegret ThiekenORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1200-y |
ISSN: | 1436-3798 |
ISSN: | 1436-378X |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Regional environmental change |
Untertitel (Englisch): | insights from a survey among flood-affected residents in German |
Verlag: | Springer |
Verlagsort: | Heidelberg |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 31.07.2017 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 06.04.2022 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Adaptation; Climate change; Floods; Natural hazards; Recovery; Resilience |
Band: | 18 |
Ausgabe: | 1 |
Seitenanzahl: | 10 |
Erste Seite: | 287 |
Letzte Seite: | 296 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Umweltwissenschaften und Geographie |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften |
Peer Review: | Referiert |