Gauging the impact of natural hazards
The pattern and cost of emergency response during flood events
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8963837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edmund Penning‐rowsell, Edmund C Penning‐rowsell (0000-0002-5333-8641, Middlesex University, corresponding author), Theresa Wilson (0000-0002-5841-8448, Middlesex University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 99-115 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00200.x |
| OpenAlex | W2163822464 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 19 |
Flood risk management policy in the UK is shifting away from simplistic flood defence towards ‘living with floods’ and ‘making space for water’, thereby accepting that significant flood damage and disruption will continue into the future. This highlights the need for efficient emergency response to flood events, as the first step towards recovery, yet we know very little about the resources and costs that this involves. This paper evaluates the severe flooding in the UK in autumn 2000, and shows that these costs are widely distributed, both geographically and institutionally. Geographically, they broadly match the incidence of property flooding, but they are much larger than we had hitherto appreciated, at approximately 15 per cent of total economic flood losses. The implication is that we should take this topic more seriously in the future than in the past, not see emergency response to floods and other disasters as a low‐cost or even a cost‐free option, and ensure that this effort is as effective as possible in facilitating post‐event recovery
Business · Economic cost · Economics · Emergency response · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Event (particle physics · Flood myth · Flooding (psychology · Geography · Medical emergency · Natural disaster · Natural hazard · Natural resource economics · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
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| Citations per year | 0.53 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |