Understanding Flood Preparedness Flood Memories, Social Vulnerability and Risk Communication in Southern Poland /

• Main Authors: Działek, Jarosław (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Biernacki, Wojciech (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Konieczny, Roman (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Fiedeń, Łukasz (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Franczak, Paweł (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Grzeszna, Karolina (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Listwan-Franczak, Karolina (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
• Subjects: Environmental geography.; Natural disasters.; Human geography.; Economic development.; Environmental sociology.; Environmental Geography.; Natural Hazards.; Human Geography.; Regional Development.; Environmental Sociology.

The book looks at the factors influencing the level of preparedness of communities exposed to flooding. It is based on original research carried out in twelve areas in southern Poland that suffered serious flood damage in the past thirty years. The underlying research was intended, on the one hand,...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The course floods in the study areas and their consequences
• Chapter 3. Changeability of the spatial image of flood over time
• Chapter 4. Social vulnerability as a factor in flood preparedness
• Chapter 5. Online flood risk communication
• Chapter 6. Planning documents as a source of information about flood risk
• Chapter 7. Discussion and conclusions
• References.