Flood vulnerability and commercial activities

The case of the city of Girona, Spain

Bibliographic Data

ID3897818
AuthorsLluís Ribera Masgrau (Universitat de Girona), Anna Ribas Palom (0000-0001-5163-0561, Universitat de Girona)
Year2012
Volume36
Issue4
Pages676-699
Publication date2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDisasters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-7717.2012.01277.x
PMID22356531
OpenAlexW2119001206
LanguageEN
References cited30

This paper is based on a case study of the city of Girona in Catalonia, Spain, and analyses the vulnerability of commercial establishments to floods caused by the Onyar River. A mapping and statistical approach (cluster analysis) was applied to the information obtained from 568 questionnaires answered by the shops and the workshops located in the flood risk area. The results obtained allowed the authors to determine five different flood vulnerability profiles of the commercial establishments analysed. These profiles paint a picture of little individual adaptation to the risk and the possibility of suffering, sooner or later, large economic losses due to overflowing of the Onyar River. The authors established a methodology for carrying out a detailed multidimensional analysis of the flood vulnerability of the city's commercial establishments in order to provide the foundations for local government policies and for strategies for shop owners to reduce flood vulnerability

Archaeology · Business · Computer security · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Flood myth · Geography · Psychological resilience · Vulnerability (computing · Vulnerability assessment · Water resource management · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research