Unraveling the complexity of human behavior and urbanization on community vulnerability to floods.

ABSTRACT: Floods are among the costliest natural hazards and their consequences are expected to increase further in the future due to urbanization in flood-prone areas. It is essential that policymakers understand the factors governing the dynamics of urbanization to adopt proper disaster risk reduction techniques. Peoples' relocation preferences and their perception of flood risk (collectively called human behavior) are among the most important factors that influence urbanization in flood-prone areas. Current studies focusing on flood risk assessment do not consider the effect of human behavior on urbanization and how it may change the nature of the risk. Moreover, flood mitigation policies are implemented without considering the role of human behavior and how the community will cope with measures

SUBMITTER: Hemmati M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8505605 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature