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TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS
Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 412-426Publisher
INST BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS
DOI: 10.1111/1475-5661.00063
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United Kingdom; flood risk management; hazard assessment; societal vulnerability
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In recent years, an apparent increase in the frequency and severity of floods in the UK has led to growing concerns about societal exposure and vulnerability to flooding, particularly in the context of climate change, floodplain development and changing insurance practices. Despite the important link between Assessments of exposure to flooding (hazard assessments) and issues of societal vulnerability, this link has rarely been explored in detail and has often been reflected in policy terms by a highly technocratic approach to flood risk management. Indeed, more comprehensive studies have usually favoured rigid and deterministic definitions of vulnerability, in keeping with the wider technocratic paradigm pervading management institutions. In an attempt to redress the balance, this paper considers the role of hazard assessment and issues of societal vulnerability as mutually informative debates and advocates a movement away from the technocratic ideals currently favoured in the UK.
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