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- Title
Anthropocene flooding: Challenges for science and society.
- Authors
Razavi, Saman; Gober, Patricia; Maier, Holger R.; Brouwer, Roy; Wheater, Howard
- Abstract
Flood events have devastating impacts on communities around the world, resulting in loss of life, property damage and severe disruption to national economies and global trade. The frequency of such flood events has increased significantly over the past few decades, to the point where flooding is now the most common type of natural hazard (Figure). The hazard community refers to this phenomenon as a loss of social memory when people have little recent exposure to flooding and thus fail to take adequate flood mitigation measures (Adger, Hughes, Folke, Carpenter, & Rockström, [1]). NEXT STEPS Recent flood events suggest that science and society are ill-prepared for the difficult decisions that lie ahead as the flood events and impacts of the Anthropocene unfold.
- Subjects
FLOOD risk; FLOODPLAIN ecology; SCIENTIFIC community; SCIENTIFIC communication; FLOODS; FLOOD control; COMMUNITY involvement; ENVIRONMENTAL sciences; ANTHROPOCENE Epoch
- Publication
Hydrological Processes, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 8, p1996
- ISSN
0885-6087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hyp.13723