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Environmental vulnerability and resilience

Social differentiation in short‐ and long‐term flood impacts

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ID8964300
AuthorsDonald Houston (0000-0002-7178-9630, Department of Geography University of Portsmouth Portsmouth UK, corresponding author), Alan Werritty (Department of Geography University of Dundee Dundee UK), Tom Ball (0000-0002-7324-4300, Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Geography University of Winchester Winchester UK), Andrew Black (0000-0001-9292-1146, Department of Geography University of Dundee Dundee UK)
Year2020
Volume46
Issue1
Pages102-119
Publication date2020-09-02
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.12408
OpenAlexW3080431957
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited49

This paper finds that social differentiation in flood impacts is relatively small soon after a flood, with some surprising results such as professionals and homeowners badly affected in the short‐term – but widens over time, with socially disadvantaged groups displaying less recovery. The paper concludes that vulnerability and resilience to flooding are sensitive to financial resources, institutional support (chiefly from a landlord), and capacity to deal with disruption (chiefly time availability, which is low among professionals and high among retired people). An implication of these findings is that existing indices of flood vulnerability that use multiple measures of social deprivation should be used with caution, as not all conventional aspects of social deprivation are necessarily associated with greater vulnerability to flood impacts

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