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Flash-floods in Catalonia: the social perception in a context of changing vulnerability Llasat Botija, María del Carmen López, L. Barnolas, M. Llasat-Botija, Montserrat Inundacions Catalunya Floods Catalonia In assessing a flood event two risk components need to be considered: the intrinsic hazard of the hydrome- teorological event causing the flood and the vulnerability of the area where the precipitation has been registered. In the present study four flood events selected by the FLASH Eu- ropean project have been classified according to the charac- teristics of the meteorological event (classification according to hazard) and according to the physical and economic dam- ages caused (classification according to vulnerability). The social impact of these events is analysed taking into account the growth of the population. An increase in the number of extraordinary flash-floods was detected in the areas with a major growth of the population, as a consequence of an in- creased vulnerability of these areas, both from a physical per- spective (exposure of infrastructures) and from an economic perspective (more goods exposed). In addition, the numer- ous non-native inhabitants of the region are not aware of the meteorological risks characteristic of the area, and this con- tributes to increased social vulnerability 2018-04-25T15:27:30Z 2018-04-25T15:27:30Z 2008 2018-04-25T15:27:30Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1680-7340 https://hdl.handle.net/2445/121879 567237 eng Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-17-63-2008 Advances in Geosciences, 2008, vol. 17, p. 63-70 https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-17-63-2008 cc-by (c) Llasat Botija, María del Carmen et al., 2008 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 8 p. application/pdf European Geosciences Union (EGU) Articles publicats en revistes (Física Aplicada)