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Steinführer, A. (author)The paper draws lessons from our empirical investigations in Germany, Italy and England/Wales in a very specific perspective: It formulates recommendations for flood risk management with people at risk. Thus it tries to shed light on the views of this important but often neglected group of stakeholders. Our addressees are flood risk...report 2009
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Hoffmann, S. (author)Risk awareness and personal preparedness are seen to be important parameters in an integrated risk management scheme today. This study is contributing to the knowledge base about the perception of risk. Regarding the risk of storm-surges, an assessment of the perception and the status of personal preparedness of the people are addressed in an...report 2008
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De Marchi, B. (author)The report presents the findings of focus-groups and questionnaire surveys in settlements at flood-risk and recently flooded, respectively. As far as the quantitative surveys are concerned, data regard the sites located in the Trento, Bolzano/Bozen and Udine areasreport 2007
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Steinführer, A. (author)The report discusses the findings of a questionnaire survey carried out in five localities of the Mulde catchment (Germany) in 2005 (N=404). All these settlements were heavily affected by the 2002 August flood. Both an event- and a phase-sensitive approach are applied from a bottom-up perspective of the people affected. This specific...report 2007
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Tapsell, S. (author)The report begins by reviewing literature on vulnerability and resilience to disasters. Vulnerability has emerged as a central concept for understanding what it is about the condition of people that enables a hazard to become a disaster. True flood prevention and mitigation need to address not only hydrological factors, but also the economic,...report 2007
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Oosterhoff, S.M. (author)Sociaal-pedagogische studie van de beroepsgroep rijswerkers, hun sociale leven en de gemeenschap in Werkendam.report 1961