Flood risk management and shared responsibility: Exploring Canadian public attitudes and expectations

Henstra, Daniel; Thistlethwaite, Jason; Brown, Craig; Scott, Daniel

doi:10.1111/jfr3.12346

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“…This approach, we hope, aids in the article's generalizability, particularly relative to studies undertaken by survey or polling firms who may maintain less direct contact and establish less of a rapport with participants. On the whole, our findings about risk perception do parallel many of the conclusions drawn by other research in both the Calgary (i.e., Tanner & Árvai, ) and the Canadian (Henstra, Thistlethwaite, Brown, & Scott, ; Thistlethwaite et al., , ) contexts, thereby contributing to a burgeoning literature on how Canadians living in vulnerable places perceive respond to risk.…”

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

2019

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The persistent gap in flood risk awareness in Canada, and elsewhere in North America, is a continual source of worry for researchers and emergency managers; many people living in at‐risk places are simply unaware of risks and of their proximity to hazards. This study seeks to understand which residents were aware of flood risk, using unique representative survey data of Calgary residents living in the city's flood‐prone neighborhoods collected after the devastating and costly 2013 Southern Alberta Flood. The article uses logistic regression models to analyze which residents were aware of risk to their homes. Findings indicate that, in addition to various demographic predictors, many of the geographic predictors (including the elevation of one's home relative to the river) are significant predictors of awareness. Having a direct sight line to one of Calgary's two rivers is also a significant predictor in some of the models, suggesting that the visibility of hazards matters for flood risk perception, although this effect fades when many of the geographic predictors are added. Finally, the models indicate that several variables related to local, neighborhood‐based social networks are significant as well. These findings reveal that both physical surroundings and social context are important for understanding risk awareness. The article concludes by discussing the relevance for social science research on disasters and hazards, as well as for planners and emergency managers.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

2019

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“…The topics reflect the high visibility of flood risk management in local Canadian adaptation planning (Henstra, Thistlethwaite, Brown, & Scott, ; Thistlethwaite & Henstra, ); “flood” appears in topics 7, 15, 19, and 21–24. Topics 13 (“freshwater management”) and 16 (“gray infrastructure”) can also be interpreted as related to flood risk management.…”

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Frontiers in data analytics for adaptation research: Topic modeling

Lesnikowski

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Rodman

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Rapid growth over the past two decades in digitized textual information represents untapped potential for methodological innovations in the adaptation governance literature that draw on machine learning approaches already being applied in other areas of computational social sciences. This Focus Article explores the potential for text mining techniques, specifically topic modeling, to leverage this data for large-scale analysis of the content of adaptation policy documents. We provide an overview of the assumptions and procedures that underlie the use of topic modeling, and discuss key areas in the adaptation governance literature where topic modeling could provide valuable insights. We demonstrate the diversity of potential applications for topic modeling with two examples that examine: (a) how adaptation is being talked about by political leaders in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; and (b) how adaptation is being discussed by decision-makers and public administrators in Canadian municipalities using documents collected from 25 city council archives. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation K E Y W O R D S climate change adaptation, governance, policy, quantitative text analysis, topic models 1 | INTRODUCTION Text-based research methods have been a cornerstone of qualitative social science methods since the 1950s (Lasswell, 1952). These approaches see documents as meaningful artifacts that can be analyzed for their thematic and semantic content (Krippendorff, 2013), and they form a core component of the climate change adaptation governance literature. In lieu of directly observable and measurable indicators such as greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation governance research relies on written records, surveys, and interviews as its primary information sources about how different actors are responding to climate change impacts. Content analysis methods are commonly applied to sources such as government reports, strategic planning documents, peer reviewed and gray literature, and media stories (Araos et al.

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“…First, a more institutionalised sharing of the responsibility for flood recovery and mitigation with local governing bodies and individuals has been suggested (Thaler & Priest, 2014). This 'community-based' recovery is supposed to raise the higher flood risk awareness of local actors (Henstra, Thistlethwaite, Brown, & Scott, 2019;Meijerink & Dicke, 2008). Second, pre-disaster recovery planning should be activated at all governance levels to clearly delineate the priorities during the recovery period and how they are to be (or not) funded; e.g.…”

Section: Recent Approaches To State Flood Recovery Fundingmentioning

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Approaches to state flood recovery funding in Visegrad Group Countries

Slavíková

Raška²,

Banasik

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Environmental Hazards

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Flood recovery is an important period in the flood risk management cycle. Recently, flood recovery has become viewed as an opportunity for future flood damage mitigation. Financial flows to cover flood damages and rules regarding their allocation are crucial for supporting or undermining mitigation efforts. In this paper, we map and compare state flood recovery funding in the so-called Visegrad Group Countries (V4), i.e. Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, over the past 30 years of their democratic history. We apply a qualitative comparative approach to identify differences and similarities in risk sharing and state flood recovery funding approaches among these countries. Additionally, we reveal how risk sharing is addressed by existing flood recovery funding schemes. The results indicate that national governments have a low willingness to institutionalise ex-ante compensation schemes. Ad hoc instruments initiated shortly after disastrous flooding usually do not provide incentives to reduce future flood damages.

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Flood risk management and shared responsibility: Exploring Canadian public attitudes and expectations

Cited by 55 publications

References 40 publications

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

Frontiers in data analytics for adaptation research: Topic modeling

Approaches to state flood recovery funding in Visegrad Group Countries

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