The behavioral turn in flood risk management, its assumptions and potential implications

C Kuhlicke, S Seebauer, P Hudson… - Wiley …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent policy changes highlight the need for citizens to take adaptive actions to reduce
flood‐related impacts. Here, we argue that these changes represent a wider behavioral turn …

Flood exposure and social vulnerability in the United States

E Tate, MA Rahman, CT Emrich, CC Sampson - Natural Hazards, 2021 - Springer
Human exposure to floods continues to increase, driven by changes in hydrology and land
use. Adverse impacts amplify for socially vulnerable populations, who disproportionately …

Swimming alone? Why linking flood risk perception and behavior requires more than “it's the individual, stupid”

S Rufat, A Fekete, I Armaş, T Hartmann… - Wiley …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A common assertion in discussions of flooding is that risk perception is critical and is linked
to risk‐mitigating behavior. Furthermore, many assert that the adverse effects of floods could …

Exploring the environmental justice implications of Hurricane Harvey flooding in Greater Houston, Texas

J Chakraborty, TW Collins… - American journal of …, 2019 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To assess the environmental justice implications of flooding from Hurricane
Harvey in Greater Houston, Texas, we analyzed whether the areal extent of flooding was …

Insights into flood‐coping appraisals of protection motivation theory: Empirical evidence from Germany and France

P Bubeck, WJ Wouter Botzen, J Laudan… - Risk …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Protection motivation theory (PMT) has become a popular theory to explain the risk‐
reducing behavior of residents against natural hazards. PMT captures the two main …

A place-based socioeconomic status index: Measuring social vulnerability to flood hazards in the context of environmental justice

L Chakraborty, H Rus, D Henstra… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a national-level socioeconomic status (SES) index to measure place-
based relative social vulnerability and socioeconomic inequalities across Canada. The aim …

[HTML][HTML] Fine-scale assessment of inequities in inland flood vulnerability

ML Messager, AK Ettinger, M Murphy-Williams… - Applied geography, 2021 - Elsevier
Every year, river floods disrupt millions of lives across the world, impacting individual
livelihoods and testing the resilience of entire communities, with ripple effects through …

Disparities of population exposed to flood hazards in the United States

Y Qiang - Journal of environmental management, 2019 - Elsevier
This study integrates publicly available datasets to provide a county-based assessment of
socio-economic disparities of population exposure to flood hazards in the United States …

Environmental injustice and flood risk: a conceptual model and case comparison of metropolitan Miami and Houston, USA

TW Collins, SE Grineski, J Chakraborty - Regional environmental change, 2018 - Springer
This article outlines a conceptual model and comparatively applies it to results from
environmental justice (EJ) studies of flood risk in the Miami, Florida, and Houston, Texas …

Hurricane Harvey and people with disabilities: Disproportionate exposure to flooding in Houston, Texas

J Chakraborty, SE Grineski, TW Collins - Social Science & Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
While numerous environmental justice (EJ) studies have found socially disadvantaged
groups such as racial/ethnic minorities and low-income individuals to be disproportionately …