Constructing a social vulnerability index for flooding: insights from a municipality in Sweden

Summary

In this paper the authors aim to design and test a social vulnerability index to floods at a sub-municipal level in Sweden.Floods disproportionately affect disadvantaged groups. Social vulnerability assessments are the first step in designing just and equitable flood risk reduction strategies. In Sweden, earlier social vulnerability indices apply top-down approaches.

Creators/Authors

Mathilda Englund
Research Associate,SEI Headquarters

Marlon Vieira Passos
Research Associate,SEI Headquarters

Karin André
Team Leader: Cities, Communities and Consumption; Senior Research Fellow,SEI Headquarters

Åsa Gerger Swartling
Head of Knowledge Management, Senior Research Fellow,SEI Headquarters

Lisa Segnestam
Research Fellow,SEI Headquarters

Karina Barquet
Team Leader: Water, Coasts and Ocean; Senior Research Fellow,SEI Headquarters

Tags

vulnerability flooding water : cities disaster risk