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Flood Hazards and Health - Responding to present and future risks
Edited by Roger Few and Franziska Matthies
Earthscan
April 2006
Hardback 240 pp ISBN 9781844072156
£80.00
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The first detailed discussion of the worldwide health implications of flooding and future flood risk
- Combines global reviews of existing knowledge with detailed case study material from Europe,
North America, Asia and Africa
- Written in an accessible, jargon-free style: ideal for policy makers, students and the general reader alike
With the tragedy of New Orleans still the focus of the world's media, this highly topical book
combines rigorous analysis of the human health impacts of flooding with an appraisal of individual
and societal response to those risks, and sets these findings in light of potential future increases in flood hazard
as a result of climate change.
Findings from epidemiological, environmental, social and institutional studies are brought together,
with analysis rooted in an approach that emphasizes the developmental as well as environmental causes
of flood risk and the socially differentiated nature of vulnerability and coping capacity. A detailed discussion
of the global health impacts of floods and the nature of human response to the health risks posed is reinforced by
new research evidence on specific health aspects of floods covering mental health, water and sanitation, local level
responses and the responses of health systems.
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