Digital flood histories: sharing experiences of flooding

This project uses video footage to investigate the extent to which communities with a history of flooding are equipped to cope during and after flood events.

From:
Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
Published
23 February 2021
Category:
Environmental management and sustainability
Topics:
Behavioural change, Citizen science, Communicating risk, Community participation, Community response and resilience, Emergency planning, Flood costs, Incident management, Insurance, Recovery
Project status:
Completed
Project code:
SC130036
Date of completion:
31 March 2015

Documents

Digital flood histories - summary (93KB) PDF

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Details

Increasing understanding of flood risks and the impacts of flooding is important for improving community resilience to flood events. Public understanding and acceptance of flood risk is improved when flooded communities share their experiences with communities that do not experience flooding.

This research focuses on communities in Gloucestershire with a history of past extreme flooding events. Through a selection of 21 short videos, it demonstrates the:

  • impact of floods
  • ways of coping with floods
  • ways that a community can positively respond to reduce risk in the future

This project ran from 2014 to 2015.

Published 23 February 2021