A method for assessing community flood management knowledge for vulnerable groups: Australia's 2010-2011 floods

Abstract

Relatively little is known about managing responses to the rising number of extreme weather events for socially disadvantaged groups. This study aimed to discover internationally relevant lessons from the Australian floods of 2010-2011 about managing extreme floods for specific vulnerable groups. In particular, it aimed to examine Queensland community stakeholder accounts of flood management to identify the strengths and weaknesses of community knowledge about flood management for these vulnerable groups. A two-stage 'critical computational linguistics' analysis was conducted of 753 community submissions to the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry: (i) content scoping and quantification u..