Development of a Flood Management Plan

Wqod, Duncan W.; Gooch, Thomas C.; Pronovost, Paul M.; Noonan, David C.

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9496(1985)111:4(417)

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“…(4,5) Public participation in hazards policy is well documented. (6,7,8,9) In fact, researchers note that public risk perceptions drive policy as much as scientific risk assessments. (10,11,12) On the ecological risk of climate change, researchers find that public literacy is relatively low, (13) though compared with the rest of the world, Americans know an average amount about global warming.…”

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“…We measure a respondent's level of information by asking each respondent to report "how informed do you consider yourself to be" about global warming and climate change, which produces an 11point scale. 6 We measure media trust using a threeitem index (Cronbach's alpha = 0.703) asking respon- Note: The survey items were asked in succession, and were preceded by the following stem: "The following statements are about climate change and global warming. Please tell me if you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with each of them?"…”

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Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes Toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the United States

Kellstedt

Zahran²,

Vedlitz³

2008

Risk Analysis

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Despite the growing scientific consensus about the risks of global warming and climate change, the mass media frequently portray the subject as one of great scientific controversy and debate. And yet previous studies of the mass public's subjective assessments of the risks of global warming and climate change have not sufficiently examined public informedness, public confidence in climate scientists, and the role of personal efficacy in affecting global warming outcomes. By examining the results of a survey on an original and representative sample of Americans, we find that these three forces-informedness, confidence in scientists, and personal efficacy-are related in interesting and unexpected ways, and exert significant influence on risk assessments of global warming and climate change. In particular, more informed respondents both feel less personally responsible for global warming, and also show less concern for global warming. We also find that confidence in scientists has unexpected effects: respondents with high confidence in scientists feel less responsible for global warming, and also show less concern for global warming. These results have substantial implications for the interaction between scientists and the public in general, and for the public discussion of global warming and climate change in particular.

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Section: Existing Studies On Attitudes About Global Warmingmentioning

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Section: Operationalizations Of Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes Toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the United States

Kellstedt

Zahran²,

Vedlitz³

2008

Risk Analysis

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432

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“…Because the regulation and management of risks, such as hurricanes and floods are subject to public debate and input, the perception of these risks are of considerable interest to planners and policy makers (Fischhoff et al, 1981;Johnson and Tversky, 1984). The growing importance of public participation in hazards planning is well documented (Wood et al, 1985;Brody, 2003;Brody et al, 2003;Burby, 2003;Godschalk et al, 1999) to the point that it is argued the public perception of risk is driving policy as much as technological and scientific risk assessments (Correia et al, 1998;Slaymaker, 1999;Tierney et al, 2001). Second, public risk perception is positively correlated with public response and adjustment to a particular hazard event.…”

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Hurricane risk perceptions among Florida's single family homeowners

Peacock

Brody

Highfield

2005

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…Wood, Gooch, Pronovost, and Noonan (1985) stress the importance of public consultation and participation in flood management planning. Recently, geographers have begun to consider the practical and societal impacts of using GISs to support public participation (NCGIA, 1995(NCGIA, , 1996.…”

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A real-time hydrological model for flood prediction using GIS and the WWW

Alsabhan

Mulligan

Blackburn

2003

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the current status of real time hydrological models used for flood nowcasting and hazard mitigation and indicate how WWW-based systems can overcome some of the limitations of existing systems. Whilst hydrologically innovative and robust models are available, they are poorly suited to real time application, are often not well integrated with spatial datasets such as GIS. Current systems also lack flexibility, customisability and accessibility by a range of end users. We describe the development of a Web-based hydrological modelling system that permits integrated handling of real-time rainfall data from a wireless monitoring network. A spatially distributed GIS-based model is integrated on the basis of this incoming data, approximating real-time to produce data on catchment hydrology and runoff. The data can be accessed from any WWW interface, and they can be analysed online using a number of GIS and numerical functions. We discuss the potential users of such a system and the requirements for interfacing model output with these users for hydrological nowcasting and spatial real-time, emergency decision support. Rather than discuss developments in the modelling of hydrology for flood hazard mitigation, this paper focuses on developments in interfacing these models with end users. #

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Development of a Flood Management Plan

Cited by 12 publications

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Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes Toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the United States

Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes Toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the United States

Hurricane risk perceptions among Florida's single family homeowners

A real-time hydrological model for flood prediction using GIS and the WWW

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