Effects of damaging hydrogeological events on people  throughout 15 years in a Mediterranean region

Aceto, Luigi; Pasqua, Angela Aurora; Petrucci, Olga

doi:10.5194/adgeo-44-67-2017

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“…In an Australian study by Franklin et al (2014), 10% (n=13) of participants responded that they had swum in floodwater; however, it is unclear if this behaviour was exercised for recreational reasons. Aceto et al (2017) report that fishing and other recreational activities are responsible for one fatality (5%) during damaging hydrogeological events in the Italian Calabria Region between 2000 and 2014. Furthermore, 22 out of 154 injuries related to these events can be related to fishing and recreational activities as well as 36 (2%) to general involvements in the events.…”

Section: Activities and Risk-taking Behavioursmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A total of four people died while trying to rescue another person with two people injured during damaging hydrogeological events in the Italian Calabria region (Aceto et al, 2017). Ashley and Ashley (2008) Krishna et al (2018) in Tamil Nadu, India, found that children were commonly used to transport information between neighbours in small villages despite being perceived to be at higher risk during natural disasters.…”

Section: Loss Reduction Knowledge and Warningsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A systematic review of human behaviour in and around floodwater

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Demant

Peden

et al. 2020

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Flooding can have a major impact on people's safety and livelihood. Understanding people's flood-related behaviours may assist in the development of more effective strategies aimed at lessening the impact of floods including mortality and morbidity. This systematic review examined peer-reviewed literature published from January-1989 to April-2019 on human behaviour in and around floodwater to identify behaviour patterns as well as protective and risk factors. We extracted three main themes from a thematic analysis of included studies (N=54): activities and risk-taking behaviours (n=24); loss reduction, knowledge, and warnings (n=37); and diet and hygiene (n=4). This review had limitations which prevented definitive conclusions being made. What does seem apparent is the limited knowledge of the social psychological mechanisms that guide behavioural responses in a flood event. Further exploration of methods to improve preparedness, increase the likelihood of evacuation, and reduce 'risky' behaviour during floods is needed. Future studies should prioritise addressing these gaps to enhance the evidence-base for reducing the impact of floods including floodrelated mortality and morbidity.

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Section: Activities and Risk-taking Behavioursmentioning

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Section: Loss Reduction Knowledge and Warningsmentioning

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A systematic review of human behaviour in and around floodwater

Hamilton

Demant

Peden

et al. 2020

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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“…The limitations associated with documentary sources are widely addressed in literature [21,32,33]. The most important ones are as follows:…”

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“…Narratives of fatal events gathered from documentary sources were disaggregated in database fields describing victim's profile and the circumstances of the deaths. EUFF follows the data organization already tested in published papers [18,21,23,34]. Each row contains data about a single fatality, organized in fields clustered in six sections, the detailed description of which is available in [18] (2019).…”

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Flood Fatalities in Europe, 1980–2018: Variability, Features, and Lessons to Learn

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Aceto

Bianchi

et al. 2019

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Floods are still a significant threat to people, despite of the considerable developments in forecasting, management, defensive, and rescue works. In the near future, climate and societal changes as both urbanization of flood prone areas and individual dangerous behaviors could increase flood fatalities. This paper analyzes flood mortality in eight countries using a 39-year database (1980–2018) named EUFF (EUropean Flood Fatalities), which was built using documentary sources. The narratives of fatalities were investigated and standardized in the database reporting the details of the events. The entire dataset shows a stable trend on flood fatalities, despite the existence of individual increasing (Greece, Italy, and South France) and decreasing (Turkey and Catalonia) trends. The 2466 fatalities were mainly males, aged between 30–49 years and the majority of them happened outdoor. Most often people were dragged by water/mud when travelling by motor vehicles. Some cases of hazardous behaviors, such as fording rivers, were also detected. The primary cause of death was drowning, followed by heart attack. This work contributes to understand the human–flood interaction that caused fatalities. The changes in society’s vulnerability highlighted throughout this study contribute to manage future risks, to improve people protection actions, and to reduce risk behaviors.

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“…In addition to flood fatalities, those due to landslides, lightning, windstorms, hail, or storm surges in the Calabria Region (southern Italy) were analysed for the 2000-2014 period by Aceto et al [29] and for the 2000-2016 period by Petrucci et al [30]. Badoux et al [31] investigated fatalities related to several natural hazards in Switzerland for the 1946-2015 period.…”

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Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic

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Chromá

Řehoř

et al. 2019

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This paper presents the potential of documentary evidence for enhancing the study of fatalities taking place in the course of hydrological and meteorological events (HMEs). Chronicles, “books of memory”, weather diaries, newspapers (media), parliamentary proposals, epigraphic evidence, systematic meteorological/hydrological observations, and professional papers provide a broad base for gathering such information in the Czech Republic, especially since 1901. The spatiotemporal variability of 269 fatalities in the Czech Republic arising out of 103 HMEs (flood, flash flood, windstorm, convective storm, lightning, frost, snow/glaze-ice calamity, heat, and other events) in the 1981–2018 period is presented, with particular attention to closer characterisation of fatalities (gender, age, cause of death, place, type of death, and behaviour). Examples of three outstanding events with the highest numbers of fatalities (severe frosts in the extremely cold winter of 1928/1929, a flash flood on 9 June 1970, and a rain flood in July 1997) are described in detail. Discussion of results includes the problem of data uncertainty, factors influencing the numbers of fatalities, and the broader context. Since floods are responsible for the highest proportion of HME-related deaths, places with fatalities are located mainly around rivers and drowning appears as the main cause of death. In the further classification of fatalities, males and adults clearly prevail, while indirect victims and hazardous behaviour are strongly represented.

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Effects of damaging hydrogeological events on people throughout 15 years in a Mediterranean region

Cited by 18 publications

References 20 publications

A systematic review of human behaviour in and around floodwater

A systematic review of human behaviour in and around floodwater

Flood Fatalities in Europe, 1980–2018: Variability, Features, and Lessons to Learn

Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic

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