Flood dynamics, social vulnerability and risk perception: challenges for flood risk management

摘要: The 2015 was a remarkable year in the global policy with publication of three milestones: Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement Climate Change. significance such documents raised interest understanding interaction between humans, Earth climate, past current development disasters. Anthropogenic landscapes are one most sensitive environments to hydrological extremes, fluctuations changes. Here, hydrogeological disasters as floods considered major threat our time, bringing negative consequences whole societal system. However, while climate change socio-economic important drivers flood impacts, human behaviours can alter potential effects by undertaking protective behaviours. In this regard, risk perceptions behaviour. Thus, exploring individuals’ concern about natural hazards provide essential information people willingness take precautionary measures can, therefore, identify reasons behind unsatisfactory performance level disaster management practices. This suggests that advancing hazard investigating personal, social cultural influences help determining preparedness. Limitations personal action front might come from vulnerabilities, those factors increase fragility individuals toward particular threat. light this, there is need create people-oriented strategies, governments focused on vulnerable groups, able recognise local capacities, foster communication awareness campaigns empower citizens mitigate undesirable events. For reason, thesis proposes an analysis interactions using historical land use data, participatory approaches vulnerability. Furthermore, would suggest possible actions policies different anthropogenic communities. Different study areas have been chosen order tackle site-specific dynamics capture how socio-political unique background each community affect conceptualisation risk.