Flood risk behaviors of United States riverine metropolitan areas are driven by local hydrology and shaped by race.

ABSTRACT: Flooding risk results from complex interactions between hydrological hazards (e.g., riverine inundation during periods of heavy rainfall), exposure, vulnerability (e.g., the potential for structural damage or loss of life), and resilience (how well we recover, learn from, and adapt to past floods). Building on recent coupled conceptualizations of these complex interactions, we characterize human-flood interactions (collective memory and risk-enduring attitude) at a more comprehensive scale than has been attempted to date across 50 US metropolitan statistical areas with a sociohydrologic (SH) model calibrated with accessible local data (historical records of annual peak streamflow, flood insurance loss claims, active insurance policy records, and population density). A cluster analysis on c

SUBMITTER: Knighton J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8020782 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature