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- Title
Socio‐Environmental Vulnerability Mapping for Environmental and Flood Resilience Assessment: The Case of Ageing and Poverty in the City of Wrocław, Poland.
- Authors
Szewrański, Szymon; Świąder, Małgorzata; Kazak, Jan K.; Tokarczyk‐dorociak, Katarzyna; Van Hoof, Joost
- Abstract
ABSTRACT: The phenomena of urbanization and climate change interact with the growing number of older people living in cities. One of the effects of climate change is an increased riverine flooding hazard, and when floods occur this has a severe impact on human lives and comes with vast economic losses. Flood resilience management procedures should be supported by a combination of complex social and environmental vulnerability assessments. Therefore, new methodologies and tools should be developed for this purpose. One way to achieve such inclusive procedures is by incorporating a social vulnerability evaluation methodology for environmental and flood resilience assessment. These are illustrated for application in the Polish city of Wrocław. Socio‐environmental vulnerability mapping, based on spatial analyses using the poverty risk index, data on the ageing population, as well as the distribution of the areas vulnerable to floods, was conducted with use of a location intelligence system combining Geographic Information System (GIS) and Business Intelligence (BI) tools. The new methodology allows for the identification of areas populated by social groups that are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of flooding. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2018;14:592–597. © 2018 SETAC
- Subjects
POLAND; DISASTER resilience; FLOOD control; RISK assessment of climate change; URBANIZATION &; the environment
- Publication
Integrated Environmental Assessment & Management, 2018, Vol 14, Issue 5, p592
- ISSN
1551-3777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ieam.4077