Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada.
Disasters. 2011 Jul;35(3):554-76. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01222.x. Epub 2010 Nov 18.
More than a decade after the 1997 Red River Flood, vulnerability to future flooding exists due to a lack of risk communication. This study identifies risk communication gaps and discusses the creation of strategies to enhance information-sharing, bottom-up activity and partnership development. The objectives were achieved using mixed methods, including interviews, a floodplain-wide survey, and a decision-makers' risk management workshop. The results highlight a number of external pressures exerted by regional floodplain policies and procedures that restrict risk communication and affect social vulnerability in the rural floodplain. The failures of a top-down approach to floodplain management have impacted on communities' abilities to address floodplain risks, have amplified local risks, and have decreased community cooperation in floodplain management initiatives since the 1997 'Flood of the Century'. Recommended policies promote the establishment of community standards to compensate for gaps in risk communication and the development of partnerships between floodplain communities.
在 1997 年红河洪灾发生十多年后，由于缺乏风险沟通，未来仍面临洪灾脆弱性。本研究确定了风险沟通差距，并讨论了制定战略以加强信息共享、自下而上的活动和伙伴关系发展。使用混合方法，包括访谈、整个泛滥平原的调查和决策者的风险管理研讨会，实现了这些目标。结果突出了区域泛滥平原政策和程序施加的一些外部压力，这些压力限制了风险沟通并影响了农村泛滥平原的社会脆弱性。泛滥平原管理自上而下方法的失败，影响了社区应对泛滥平原风险的能力，放大了当地风险，并降低了社区在 1997 年“世纪洪水”以来泛滥平原管理倡议中的合作。建议的政策促进了社区标准的建立，以弥补风险沟通的差距，并发展泛滥平原社区之间的伙伴关系。
