Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Book chapters |
| Title (Primary) | Flood vulnerability and preparedness: model approach to mitigate the risk for local communities |
| Title (Secondary) | Reducing the vulnerability of societies to water related risks at the basin scale: Papers presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 26-28 September 2006 |
| Author | Haase, D.; Bohn, C. |
| Publisher | Schumann, A.; Pahlow, M.; Bogardi, J.J.; van der Zaag, P. |
| Journal | IAHS Publication |
| Year | 2007 |
| Department | CLE |
| Volume | 317 |
| Page From | 347 |
| Page To | 353 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | adaptive capacity; flood preparedness mental and concept models; transboundary river basin management; vulnerability |
| UFZ inventory | Leipzig, Bibliothek, Hauptlesesaal, 00294447, 07-1714 DK: 628.1 Red |
| Abstract | This paper presents an approach, model components and methodol-ogies to conceptualise and assess local flood vulnerability. In doing so, it is the major objective to increase the adaptive capacity of local communities against floods. Empirical evidence is taken from the Mulde River, Germany, and will be transferred to the transboundary Tisza River (Hungary, Ukraine). The conceptual model presented in the paper incorporates variables such as preparedness or risk awareness based on improved information on increasing flood frequency or discharge to demonstrate how to structure and mobilise autochthon capacities of households and communities to cope with floods. For the quantification of the causal-feedback-loops we use empiric data. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=1828 |
| Haase, D., Bohn, C. (2007): Flood vulnerability and preparedness: model approach to mitigate the risk for local communities In: Schumann, A., Pahlow, M., Bogardi, J.J., van der Zaag, P. (eds.) Reducing the vulnerability of societies to water related risks at the basin scale: Papers presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 26-28 September 2006 IAHS Publ. 317 International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, p. 347 - 353 |
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