Flood Fatalities in Europe, 1980–2018: Variability,Features, and Lessons to Learn

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/19:00110549

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335176579_Flood_Fatalities_in_Europe_1980-2018_Variability_Features_and_Lessons_to_Learn/link/5d5552f4299bf151bad45aa2/download" target="_blank" >https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335176579_Flood_Fatalities_in_Europe_1980-2018_Variability_Features_and_Lessons_to_Learn/link/5d5552f4299bf151bad45aa2/download</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11081682" target="_blank" >10.3390/w11081682</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Flood Fatalities in Europe, 1980–2018: Variability,Features, and Lessons to Learn

Original language description

Floods are still a significant threat to people, despite of the considerable developments in forecasting, management, defensive, and rescue works. In the near future, climate and societal changes as both urbanization of flood prone areas and individual dangerous behaviors could increase flood fatalities. This paper analyzes flood mortality in eight countries using a 39-year database (1980–2018) named EUFF (EUropean Flood Fatalities), which was built using documentary sources. The narratives of fatalities were investigated and standardized in the database reporting the details of the events. The entire dataset shows a stable trend on flood fatalities, despite the existence of individual increasing (Greece, Italy, and South France) and decreasing (Turkey and Catalonia) trends. The 2466 fatalities were mainly males, aged between 30–49 years and the majority of them happened outdoor. Most often people were dragged by water/mud when travelling by motor vehicles. Some cases of hazardous behaviors, such as fording rivers, were also detected. The primary cause of death was drowning, followed by heart attack. This work contributes to understand the human–flood interaction that caused fatalities. The changes in society’s vulnerability highlighted throughout this study contribute to manage future risks, to improve people protection actions, and to reduce risk behaviors.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000797" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000797: SustES - Adaptation strategies for sustainable ecosystem services and food security under adverse environmental conditions</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Water

ISSN

2073-4441

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

1-28

UT code for WoS article

000484562500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071025478