Piloting a Flood Resiliency Engagement Process in Repetitive-Loss Missouri River Communities: Holt County, MO, USA
Abstract
The 2019 flooding in the Lower Missouri River and anticipated impacts of future flood events on flood mitigation infrastructure are changing how repetitive-loss communities are thinking about the flood control structures they live with. Recent innovations to address chronic flooding, such as water storage, levee setback realignments, and changing flood-control funding mechanisms, are gaining attention among river communities and federal, state, and municipal lawmakers. Hazard mitigation and flood risk reduction efforts have historically prioritized technical tasks at the expense of inadequate preparation of the social considerations, which exacerbates the effects of natural hazards on the people who live and work in flood zones. Local residents, businesses, and communities must be consulted in decision making that affects them. This project advances Missourians’ ability to implement flood resiliency solutions by interviewing community members to gather and report their stated preferences for revising flood control efforts in their communities.
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