Flood risk management through a resilience lens

Karin M. de Bruijn*, Bramka A. Jafino, Bruno Merz, Neelke Doorn, Sally J. Priest, Ruben J. Dahm, Chris Zevenbergen, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Tina Comes

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number285
Number of pages4
JournalCommunications Earth & Environment
Volume3
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Nov 2022

Keywords

  • Disaster risk
  • Societies
  • Impacts
  • Resilience
  • flood risk

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