Community strategies to improve food risk communication in the Red River Basin, Manitoba, Canada.
Summary of "Community strategies to improve food risk communication in the Red River Basin, Manitoba, Canada."
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.
Affiliation
Assistant Professor, Lakehead University, Canada Professor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, United States.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Disasters
ISSN: 1467-7717
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Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21083849
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01222.x
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