{"id":825,"date":"2012-12-03T11:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T11:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialscienceslibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:51:00","slug":"flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2012\/12\/03\/flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/preview.grid.unep.ch\/index.php?preview=graphs&amp;lang=eng\">Global Risk data platform<\/a> is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods, cyclones, earthquakes, graphs chart economic and mortality risk.\u00a0 See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisdr.org\/we\/inform\/publications\/15136\">UNISDR disaster risk reduction<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalfloodnetwork.org\/\">International Flood network<\/a> for newsletters and alerts worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Sites on the recent UK floods:<br \/>\nThe Environment agency has a page for the public with flood warnings and flood risk maps.\u00a0 There is also a section <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environment-agency.gov.uk\/homeandleisure\/floods\/31654.aspx\">on insurance and flooding.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abi.org.uk\/Publications\/Publications_List.aspx\"> Association of British Insurers<\/a> is a trade body whose website has publications on the economic costs to insurers of increased flood risk.<br \/>\nSee in particular its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abi.org.uk\/Publications\/ABI_Publications_ABI_Climatewise_Report_2012_b27.aspx\">climate watch reports.<\/a>\u00a0There are also notes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abi.org.uk\/Information\/Consumers\/General\/Floods\/Flooding.aspx\">consumers<\/a> on insurance and flooding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalfloodforum.org.uk\/\">National Flood Forum<\/a> is a national charity dedicated to supporting and representing communities and individuals at risk of flooding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floodplanuk.org\/\">Flood plan UK<\/a> provides resources for communities to organise themselves and draw up practical plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floodrisk.org.uk\/\">Flood Risk Management Research Consortium<\/a> gathers together news from national and international perspective there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floodrisk.org.uk\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=297&amp;catid=0&amp;Itemid=27\">some news and papers free online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrc.ac.uk\/impacts-and-findings\/features-casestudies\/features\/18914\/water-flooding-and-public-trust.aspx\">The\u00a0ESRC<\/a> also has some case studies focusing on flood risk in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Risk data platform is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods, cyclones, earthquakes, graphs chart economic and mortality risk.\u00a0 See also UNISDR disaster risk reduction. International Flood network for newsletters and alerts worldwide. Sites on the recent UK floods: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7,10,4,14],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-economics","category-finance","category-management","category-disaster-and-emergency","category-security-and-risk","tag-disasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5852,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/5852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}