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

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

29 May 2023

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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.
vulnerability flooding water : cities disaster risk

Authors

Mathilda Englund, Marlon Vieira Passos, Karin André, Åsa Gerger Swartling, Lisa Segnestam, Karina Barquet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2023.1038883
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Sweden

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