Public perception of flood hazard and flood risk in Iceland: a case study in a watershed prone to ice-jam floods
| العنوان: | Public perception of flood hazard and flood risk in Iceland: a case study in a watershed prone to ice-jam floods |
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| المؤلفون: | Guðrún Gísladóttir, Emmanuel Pagneux, Salvör Jónsdóttir |
| المصدر: | Natural Hazards. 58:269-287 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010. |
| سنة النشر: | 2010 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Estimation, Atmospheric Science, education.field_of_study, Watershed, Flood myth, media_common.quotation_subject, Population, Flooding (psychology), Geography, Natural hazard, Perception, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Worry, education, Cartography, Environmental planning, Water Science and Technology, media_common |
| الوصف: | Understanding and improving the public perception has become an important element in the management of flood risk worldwide. In Iceland, studying perception of flood hazard and flood risk is, however, in its early stages. This paper presents a case study on the public perception of flood hazard and flood risk in an Icelandic town prone to ice-jam floods. Awareness of the population regarding historical inundations, self estimation of flood risk and worry is considered. The factual knowledge of the residents is deconstructed in flood hazard parameters accessible to the lay population: number of events, dates, genesis and boundaries. The performance of the respondents is rated for each parameter and the influence of several predictors evaluated. The research shows three significant patterns: there is poor awareness and little worry about historical inundations in the area; experience of the past flooding events in town is the most effective source of knowledge; awareness, risk estimation and worry are not correlated. |
| تدمد: | 1573-0840 0921-030X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11069-010-9665-8 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::7f3132c1036c427aa8dbae756d8934f5 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-010-9665-8 |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........7f3132c1036c427aa8dbae756d8934f5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15730840 0921030X |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s11069-010-9665-8 |