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Environmental vulnerability and resilience: Social differentiation in short‐ and long‐term flood impacts
Author(s) -
Houston Donald,
Werritty Alan,
Ball Tom,
Black Andrew
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/tran.12408
Subject(s) - flood myth , vulnerability (computing) , disadvantaged , psychological resilience , social vulnerability , flooding (psychology) , resilience (materials science) , business , economics , geography , economic growth , psychology , social psychology , computer security , physics , archaeology , computer science , psychotherapist , thermodynamics
This paper finds that social differentiation in flood impacts is relatively small soon after a flood, with some surprising results such as professionals and homeowners badly affected in the short‐term – but widens over time, with socially disadvantaged groups displaying less recovery. The paper concludes that vulnerability and resilience to flooding are sensitive to financial resources, institutional support (chiefly from a landlord), and capacity to deal with disruption (chiefly time availability, which is low among professionals and high among retired people). An implication of these findings is that existing indices of flood vulnerability that use multiple measures of social deprivation should be used with caution, as not all conventional aspects of social deprivation are necessarily associated with greater vulnerability to flood impacts.