Mitigating flood risk and enhancing community resilience to natural disasters: plan quality matters. (20th October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kim, Hyun; Marcouiller, David W.
• Is Part Of: Environmental hazards. Volume 17:Number 5(2018)
• Page Start: 397
• Page End: 417
• Publication Date: 2018-10-20
• Subjects: Community resilience -- flooding -- hazard mitigation plans -- planning effort -- vulnerability; Environmental disasters -- Periodicals; Environmental disasters -- Prevention -- Periodicals; Natural disasters -- Periodicals; Natural disasters -- Prevention -- Periodicals; Environmental protection -- Periodicals; 363.7005
• DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2017.1407743
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1747-7891

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In response to increasingly frequent and severe flooding events, tracking the explanatory elements of integrative planning effort can provide useful assessment of initiatives that foster improved community disaster resiliency. In this research, we address the effect of local hazard mitigation plan quality on mitigating disaster risk with an emphasis on the relationship between plan quality and community resilience. Using content analysis and principles of plan quality metrics, we evaluate local hazard mitigation plans to determine how well they support disaster risk reduction. Analytically, these metrics and relevant controls were incorporated into both a log-linear two-stage least squares model and a quantile regression model to explain flood loss at the county level for the US Mississippi River Basin. Findings suggest that better plan quality and high levels of community resilience result in reducing disaster losses.