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SUMMARY:Resilience and Preparedness
DESCRIPTION:Contact: nicklas.guldaker@keg.lu.se\n\nClimate change and urban
 ization of floodplains are contributing to increasing flood risk internati
 onally. This has prompted hydrologists to acknowledge the need to include 
 social drivers of adaptive behavior in household flood risk adaptation str
 ategies and modelling. Existing research of household adaptive behavior la
 cks appreciation for change over time\, tends to focus on intentions and p
 erceptions over empirical measurement of actions\, and assumes ‘awarenes
 s’ is a straight-forward driver of action. This paper makes an original 
 contribution by answering: what are the drivers of flood risk adaptation a
 s implemented by flood-prone households (i.e.\, adaptive behavior) over ti
 me and following a meaningful engagement?&nbsp\;We assess the relative imp
 act of ‘prior awareness’\, ‘prior non-flood actions’\, and ‘prio
 r adaptive behaviors’ on the adaptive behaviors that follow engagement. 
 Data were collected during initial survey-interview engagements with 982 h
 ouseholds and follow-up engagements with 641 households in two flood-prone
  regions of Melbourne\, Australia. Descriptive analysis shows that 221 (34
 %) households were prompted by the engagement to implement household adapt
 ive behaviors. Statistical analysis showed that the major impact pathway w
 as: prior adaptive behavior predicted adaptive behaviors in response to th
 e engagement – with measures of awareness not being significant. Qualita
 tive analysis explains that participants viewed actionable adaptive behavi
 ors as catalysts of more\, and often larger-scale adaptive behaviors\, dem
 onstrating a pathway towards more effective flood risk adaptation strategi
 es and modelling. Community engagement\, rather than awareness\, is shown 
 to be an effective prompt for ‘spillovers’ of flood risk adaptive beha
 viors in which participants implement more and often larger-scale flood ri
 sk adaptation measures.&nbsp\;To participate\, contact Nicklas Guldåker.\
 n\nMore information about the event: https://www.keg.lu.se/en/calendar/res
 ilience-and-preparedness
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LOCATION:Sölvegatan 10\, Geocentrum I\, room: Världen
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