TY - CHAP
T1 - Impacts of Flood Hazards on Small and Medium-Sized Companies
T2 - Strategies for Property-Level Protection and Business Continuity
AU - Ingirige, Bingunath
AU - Wedawatta, Gayan
PY - 2011/1/1
Y1 - 2011/1/1
N2 - Worldwide, Ÿoods have become one of the costliest weather-related hazards, causing large-scale human, economic, and environmental damage during the recent past. Recent years have seen a large number of such Ÿood events around the globe, with Europe and the United Kingdom being no exception. Currently, about one in six properties in England is at risk of Ÿooding (EA, 2009), and the risk is expected to further increase in the future (Evans et al., 2004). Although public spending on community-level Ÿood protection has increased and some properties are protected by such protection schemes, many properties at risk of Ÿooding may still be left without adequate protection. As far as businesses are concerned, this has led to an increased need for implementing strategies for property-level Ÿood protection and business continuity, in order to improve their capacity to survive a Ÿood hazard.
AB - Worldwide, Ÿoods have become one of the costliest weather-related hazards, causing large-scale human, economic, and environmental damage during the recent past. Recent years have seen a large number of such Ÿood events around the globe, with Europe and the United Kingdom being no exception. Currently, about one in six properties in England is at risk of Ÿooding (EA, 2009), and the risk is expected to further increase in the future (Evans et al., 2004). Although public spending on community-level Ÿood protection has increased and some properties are protected by such protection schemes, many properties at risk of Ÿooding may still be left without adequate protection. As far as businesses are concerned, this has led to an increased need for implementing strategies for property-level Ÿood protection and business continuity, in order to improve their capacity to survive a Ÿood hazard.
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U2 - 10.1201/b11050-23
DO - 10.1201/b11050-23
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84865389510
SN - 9781439826256
SP - 269
EP - 278
BT - Flood Hazards
A2 - Lamond, Jessica
A2 - Booth, Colin
A2 - Hammond, Felix
A2 - Proverbs, David
PB - CRC Press
ER -