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Influencing factors include:
Flood experience/length of residence
Risk awareness and construction
Perceptions of home, place and identity
Flood warning systems
Protection measures
Flood insurance
Household, community, business and
institutional preparedness and plans
Preparedness/Before
Influencing factors
include:
Levels of anxiety and
motivation
Information available
Resistance/resilience
measures adopted
Belief in cause of flood
Perception of
responsibility
Trust in authorities
Local context, political
commitment, governance
and social justice
Levels of stakeholder
engagement
Influencing factors
include:
Flood and property
characteristics
Flood warning
receipt and lead time
Information received
Behavioural
response
Risk to life and injury
Emergency response
Evacuation
Resistance and
resilience measures
Practical support
received
Individual and societal factors
Income level
Age
Social structure
Mitigation
After/
Before
Education
Gender
Values/norms/culture
Response
and relief
/During
Tenure arrangements Ethnicity
Religious beliefs
Number of people in Prior physical
household
and mental health
Presence of
Individual personality
children in
household
Recovery/After
Influencing factors include:
Scale of damages, losses and contamination
Length of displacement/disruption to life
Insurance and dealing with insurance claims
Dealing with building contractors
Financial worries/levels of compensation
Disruption of critical infrastructure and services
Health impacts/levels of stress/treatment
Practical and emotional support received
Social capital and networks/coping capacity
Fig. 20.1
Framework for analysing socio-psychological dimensions of flood risk management.
