scholarly journals Flood risk management in the USA: implications of national flood insurance program changes for social justice

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 2323-2323 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Shively
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Flood Insurance ◽  
National Flood Insurance Program ◽  
Insurance Program ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Program Changes

scholarly journals Just retreat—how different countries deal with it: examples from Austria and England

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Thaler
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
The Impact

AbstractFlood risk management has developed a large inventory of potential actions to climate-related hazards. Within this wide array of measures, managed retreat of communities at risk is usually only taken into account if other strategies are ineffective or unavailable. Communities who are affected by managed retreat are confronted with radical changes in their livelihood. However, managed retreat is highly contested. The use of managed retreat includes not only the relocation of house owners but also has the challenge that it discriminates between landowners as some gain and others lose. Therefore, managed retreat raises issues of social justice. To mitigate the impact on land, compensation plays a crucial role in flood risk management. The level and kind of compensation varies between countries across the globe. In this paper, we compare two different policy compensation frameworks in two European countries: Austria and England. The comparative study shows how different compensation schemes affect social justice, both in terms of substantive distributions but also in terms of procedural justice.

Investigating the stochastic structure of the recently published Redacted Claims data set by the FEMA National Flood Insurance Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Papoulakos ◽  
Theano Iliopoulou ◽  
Panayiotis Dimitriadis ◽  
Dimosthenis Tsaknias ◽  
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Keyword(s):  
Flood Risk ◽  
Stochastic Structure ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Flood Insurance ◽  
Flood Hazards ◽  
National Flood Insurance Program ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Flood Impacts ◽  
Insurance Program ◽  
Modelling Strategies

<p>During the last decades, scientific research in the field of flood risk management has provided new insights and strong computational tools towards the deeper understanding of the fundamental probabilistic and stochastic behaviour that characterizes such natural hazards. Flood hazards are controlled by hydrometeorological processes and their inherent uncertainties. Historically, a high percentage of flood disasters worldwide are inaccurately or ineffectively reported regarding the aggregated number of the affected people, economic losses and generated flood insurance claims. In this respect, the recently published National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) data by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including more than two million claims records dating back to 1978 and more than 47 million policy records for transactions, may provide new insights into flood impacts. The aim of this research is to process the actual insurance data derived from this database, in order to detect the underlying patterns and investigate its stochastic structure, paving the way for the development of more accurate flood risk assessment and modelling strategies.</p>

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