...David Sauri; Maria Hernández; Álvaro-Francisco Morote Purpose This paper departs from the catastrophic floods that struck Valencia in 2024 to highlight how unplanned urbanization and excessive confidence in conventional hydraulic engineering have exacerbated flood risk in the region. Instead, we...

...Atoosa Hassani; Mahmood Fayazi; Zoheir Mottaki; Morteza Adib; Ramin Dehbandi; Yasamam Khalili Gheidari; Fatemeh Seraji Purpose This study investigates why Turkmen women’s traditional handicraft skills have declined and explains how the local, traditional craft skills accelerated the post-flood...

...Emily Ragus; Catherine Sutherland; Lenore Manderson; Eileen Moyer Purpose This study examines the application of arts-based research (ABR) methods in producing knowledge about the lived experiences of disasters, particularly focusing on the effects of flooding in an informal settlement in South...

... method complemented by thorough literature review, this article captures traditional knowledge and practices of communities in the Narayani Basin for flood disaster risks reduction and management and shows ways to integrate traditional knowledge and modern science for holistic approach of disaster risk...

...Anna Ribas; Jorge Olcina; David Sauri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of high intensity precipitation events in increasing the vulnerability to floods in Mediterranean Spain. Precipitation intensity in this area appears to have augmented in the last two decades...

...Clarkson Mvo Wanie; Roland Akoh Ndi Purpose Cities across the globe, particularly those of the less developed world, face long-term challenges associated with floods which impact negatively on the resilience of city systems and their inhabitants. In the city of Maroua, most urban management...

...Riaz Ahmed Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of the flood on marriages in flooded households compared to marriages in unaffected households by utilizing the 2010 Pakistani flood as a type of natural experiment. Design/methodology/approach A difference-in-difference...

...Nicola Christie; Liza Griffin; Natalie Chan; John Twigg; Helena Titheridge Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of vulnerable people during flood events, impacts of changes in mobility on well-being and the extent to which frontline services, emergency planning...

...Jorge Olcina; David Sauri; Maria Hernández; Anna Ribas Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the main changes regarding flood policy in Spain during the period 1983-2013, that is right after the large and very damaging episodes of 1982-1983 in Valencia, Catalonia and the Basque Country...

...Shannon Doocy; Evan Russell; Yuri Gorokhovich; Thomas Kirsch Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to characterize and investigate relationships between disaster preparedness, impacts, and humanitarian response among Eastern Uganda populations affected by the 2010 landslides and floods...

...Barbara Ryan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the gaps in knowledge about how people get information in a flood and what they want to know. Design/methodology/approach A total of 27 people were interviewed from two communities that suffered flooding in the 12 months before...

...Aaron Mullins; Robby Soetanto Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate ethnic differences in perceptions of social responsibility, in relation to flooding, for householders, local businesses and policy makers. Design/methodology/approach The data were obtained via a questionnaire...

...Gayan Wedawatta; Bingunath Ingirige Purpose The UK has experienced a number of flood events in recent years, and the intensity and frequency of such events are forecast to further increase in future due to changing climatic conditions. Accordingly, enhancing the resilience of small and medium...

...Pradeep K. Rawat; C.C. Pant; P.C. Tiwari; P.D. Pant; A.K. Sharma Purpose The main objective of the study is to identify the vulnerable areas for river‐line and flash flood hazard and its mitigation through GIS Database Management System (DBMS) of geo‐hydrometeorological parameters. The Dabka...

...Catherine C. Abon; Carlos Primo C. David; Guillermo Q. Tabios, III Purpose The purpose of this paper is to integrate the proactive role of communities and the use of flood modeling in the implementation of a flood early warning system. Design/methodology/approach Manual rain gauges were...

...Paul E. Todhunter Purpose This paper aims to review the performance of the flood forecasting, warning, and response system (FFWRS) during the 1997 Red River of the North flood to identify the factors that contributed to FFWRS underperformance during this flood disaster. Design/methodology...

..., Malaysia. Three cases are drawn for investigation, including one extreme flood event, one normal flow with low tide, and another normal flow with spring tide. Findings The model predicts a worst case that nearly 5‐6 km² of urban land along the Lower Sarawak River would be under water due...

...Ravindra K. Pande Purpose Up to now most of the research into flash flood disaster has examined scientific aspects of this natural phenomenon. This paper aims to focus on the flash flood disaster scenario of Uttarakhand, a newly created Himalayan State in India, on the basis of their severity...

...Annya Chanda Shimi; Gulsan Ara Parvin; Chaitee Biswas; Rajib Shaw Purpose This paper intends to examine the impacts of flood on water supply and sanitation condition along with flood induced health problems in a rural community of Bangladesh. It also aims to explore a rural community's adaptation...

...Hoang Vinh Hung; Rajib Shaw; Masami Kobayashi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons for an unusual over‐development of flood‐prone areas outside the river dyke in Hanoi, while analysing the urban development and disaster management policies, and to suggest policy measures...