Communicating disaster risk? An evaluation of the  availability and quality of flood maps

Henstra, Daniel; Minano, Andrea; Thistlethwaite, Jason

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-313-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-313-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-313-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 1

Research article

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01 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 01 Feb 2019

Communicating disaster risk? An evaluation of the availability and quality of flood maps

Daniel Henstra, Andrea Minano, and Jason Thistlethwaite

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RC1: 'review of the manuscript nhess-2018-264', Michael Nones, 17 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Response to comments of Referee 1', Daniel Henstra, 23 Oct 2018
RC2: 'Referee report on “Communicating Disaster Risk? An Evaluation of the Availability and Quality of Flood Maps“ by Henstra et al.', Sven Fuchs, 15 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Response to comments of Referee 2', Daniel Henstra, 22 Nov 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (10 Jan 2019) by Kai Schröter

AR by Daniel Henstra on behalf of the Authors (11 Jan 2019)

ED: Publish as is (24 Jan 2019) by Kai Schröter

AR by Daniel Henstra on behalf of the Authors (25 Jan 2019)

Short summary

Flood maps can help stakeholders and the public understand their flood risk. We evaluated the quality of publicly accessible flood maps in Canadian communities designated as flood risk areas. We found that most maps (62 %) are low quality (meeting less than half of the criteria) and the highest score was 78 % (seven of nine criteria met). Canada must make a more concerted effort to produce high-quality flood maps to support its international commitment to disaster risk reduction.