Floods have increased in both frequency and intensity in the past decades, so has its associated damages and losses. Exponential population growth, rapid land-use change, and climate change are often to blame. It is estimated that floods will continue to wreak havoc in human settlements and communities due to increasing human-environment interactions. The philosophies of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction calls for a unified effort towards mitigating risks through understanding the vulnerabilities and capacities of both communities and relevant institutions. There is an imperative need to enhance resilience and capacities through effective preparedness, mitigation, and response.
The multidimensional concepts of vulnerabilities, risks, and resilience have become increasingly complex. Recent advances in human-water nexus have exposed our limitations in understanding the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary nature of flood risks. These concepts require standardization, quantification, and seamless integration. This research topic seeks to explore the analytical methods and strategies revolving around these concepts to understand interdependencies, linkages, and complexities of flood risk and its components. This can, ultimately, help to integrate the climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction principles in the context of floods.
This Research Topic welcomes submissions that can advance understanding of human-environment interactions and influences. Possible topics include, but not limited to:
• Concepts, approaches and/or empirical methods for analyzing flood risk and vulnerability in urban, suburban and/or rural settings
• Spatio-temporal dynamics of flood exposure, vulnerabilities, and risk through geospatial methods (geographic information systems, remote sensing, etc.)
• Public flood risk perception, attitudes, beliefs, awareness, and coping mechanisms
• Risk governance, early warning systems, institutional capacities and/or challenges for disaster preparedness and response for effective flood risk reduction
• Impacts of floods on the vulnerable groups (i.e., poor, women, children, elderly, and people with disabilities, etc.) and marginalized communities
Floods have increased in both frequency and intensity in the past decades, so has its associated damages and losses. Exponential population growth, rapid land-use change, and climate change are often to blame. It is estimated that floods will continue to wreak havoc in human settlements and communities due to increasing human-environment interactions. The philosophies of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction calls for a unified effort towards mitigating risks through understanding the vulnerabilities and capacities of both communities and relevant institutions. There is an imperative need to enhance resilience and capacities through effective preparedness, mitigation, and response.
The multidimensional concepts of vulnerabilities, risks, and resilience have become increasingly complex. Recent advances in human-water nexus have exposed our limitations in understanding the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary nature of flood risks. These concepts require standardization, quantification, and seamless integration. This research topic seeks to explore the analytical methods and strategies revolving around these concepts to understand interdependencies, linkages, and complexities of flood risk and its components. This can, ultimately, help to integrate the climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction principles in the context of floods.
This Research Topic welcomes submissions that can advance understanding of human-environment interactions and influences. Possible topics include, but not limited to:
• Concepts, approaches and/or empirical methods for analyzing flood risk and vulnerability in urban, suburban and/or rural settings
• Spatio-temporal dynamics of flood exposure, vulnerabilities, and risk through geospatial methods (geographic information systems, remote sensing, etc.)
• Public flood risk perception, attitudes, beliefs, awareness, and coping mechanisms
• Risk governance, early warning systems, institutional capacities and/or challenges for disaster preparedness and response for effective flood risk reduction
• Impacts of floods on the vulnerable groups (i.e., poor, women, children, elderly, and people with disabilities, etc.) and marginalized communities
