Exploring multicriteria flood vulnerability by integrating economic,social and ecological dimensions of flood risk and coping capacity: from a starting point view towards an end point view of vulnerability |
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Authors: | Sebastian Scheuer Dagmar Haase Volker Meyer |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Geography, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;(2) Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Halle, Germany; |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we present an approach to modelling multicriteria flood vulnerability which integrates the economic, social
and ecological dimension of risk and coping capacity. We start with an existing multicriteria risk mapping approach. The term
risk is used here in a way that could be called a starting point view, looking at vulnerability without considering coping capacities. We extend this approach by a multicriteria modelling of coping capacities towards an end point view of vulnerability. In doing so, we explore a way to differentiate coping capacity from flood risk in each of the dimensions
of vulnerability. The approach is tested in an urban case study, the city of Leipzig, Germany. Our results show that it is
possible to map multicriteria risks as well as coping capacities and relate them in a simple way. However, a detailed calculation
of end point vulnerability would require more detailed knowledge on the causal relationships between risk and coping capacity criteria
and their relative importance. |
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