Flood disadvantage in Scotland: mapping the potential losses in well-being

Footnotes

1. 'the geographical expression of the degree to which an external event has the potential to convert into well-being losses' (Lindley et al., 2011: 7).

2. The group of 'extremely flood disadvantaged' neighbourhoods may contain neighbourhoods which have acute socio-spatial vulnerability together with a lower proportion of residential properties potentially exposed to flood. Similarly the group may contain neighbourhoods where there is less extreme socio-spatial vulnerability coupled with a high proportion of residential properties potentially exposed.

3. It should be noted that the data used to represent potential flood exposure do not account for climate change. Further assessment of flood disadvantage will be required as and when data on the further impacts of climate change on future flood exposure become available.

4. Neighbourhoods refer to Scottish Data Zones from the 2001 Census, see Chapter 2.

5. 'Undefended' is a SEPA term and the name of the dataset, but it should be noted that the data simply show the areas that may be affected if no fluvial or coastal flood defences were present, in other words assuming that all areas are undefended. In practice some areas identified as flood prone do have defences in place and thus have a lower chance of flooding than the data suggest.

6. The data are technically referred to as flood extent data. The Flood Map for Scotland is an indicative map showing areas of Scotland which could experience flooding from rivers or the sea, or both.

7. Ordnance Survey, Crown Copyright.

8. This work is based on data provided through EDINA UKBORDERS with the support of the ESRC and JISC and uses boundary material which is copyright of the Crown and the Post Office.

9. This data is provided with the support of the ESRC and JISC and uses boundary material which is copyright of the Crown, the Post Office and the ED-LINE consortium.

10. The resultant residential property count is within around 0.5% of the 2006 count of dwellings in Scotland reported from Ordnance Survey Address Point 2 (Scottish Government Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team (GI-SAT) 2007).

11. 'Extremely flood disadvantaged' is a term used to describe neighbourhoods that have flood disadvantage scores of >=1.5 (See Table A2.1 Appendix 2 for classification scheme). The group of 'extremely flood disadvantaged' neighbourhoods may contain neighbourhoods which have acute socio-spatial vulnerability together with a lower proportion of residential properties potentially exposed to flood. Similarly the group may contain neighbourhoods where there is less extreme socio-spatial vulnerability coupled with a high proportion of residential properties potentially exposed.

12. These figures refer to the percentage of neighbourhoods which are exposed to any flood type, whether that is fluvial or coastal, or is for 1:100, 1:200 or 1:1000 flood events. See the Note on flood data box at the end of Table 1, page 5 for the meanings of these flood recurrence terms.

13. Where local authorities do not have any 'extremely flood disadvantaged' neighbourhoods in relation to either coastal or fluvial (river-related) flooding, they are excluded from the Figures.

14. Where local authorities do not have any 'extremely flood disadvantaged' neighbourhoods in relation to fluvial (river-related) flooding, they are excluded from the Figure.

15. Where local authorities do not have any 'extremely flood disadvantaged' neighbourhoods in relation to fluvial (river-related) flooding, they are excluded from the Figure.

16. Where local authorities do not have any 'extremely flood disadvantaged' neighbourhoods in relation to coastal flooding, they are excluded from the Figure.

17. Where local authorities do not have any 'extremely flood disadvantaged' neighbourhoods in relation to coastal flooding, they are excluded from the Figure.

18. SEPA will carry out a further assessment of the population exposed to flooding using a set of revised flood hazard maps, due for release in December 2013.

19. The coloured blocks represent vulnerability dimension scores relative to the average Scottish neighbourhood (represented by the horizontal axis). Bars above the horizontal axis show positive vulnerability dimension scores (greater than the Scottish average socio-spatial flood vulnerability on each of the five dimensions shown in the legend). Bars below the horizontal axis show negative vulnerability dimension scores (lower than Scottish average socio-spatial flood vulnerability on each of the five dimensions shown in the legend).

20. The coloured blocks represent vulnerability dimension scores relative to the average Scottish neighbourhood (represented by the horizontal axis). Bars above the horizontal axis show positive vulnerability dimension scores (greater than the Scottish average socio-spatial flood vulnerability on each of the five dimensions shown in the legend). Bars below the horizontal axis show negative vulnerability dimension scores (lower than Scottish average socio-spatial flood vulnerability on each of the five dimensions shown in the legend).

21. The coloured blocks represent vulnerability dimension scores relative to the average Scottish neighbourhood (represented by the horizontal axis). Bars above the horizontal axis show positive vulnerability dimension scores (greater than the Scottish average socio-spatial flood vulnerability on each of the five dimensions shown in the legend). Bars below the horizontal axis show negative vulnerability dimension scores (lower than Scottish average socio-spatial flood vulnerability on each of the five dimensions shown in the legend).

22. The coloured blocks represent vulnerability dimension scores relative to the average Scottish neighbourhood (represented by the horizontal axis). Bars above the horizontal axis show positive vulnerability dimension scores (greater than the Scottish average socio-spatial flood vulnerability on each of the five dimensions shown in the legend). Bars below the horizontal axis show negative vulnerability dimension scores (lower than Scottish average socio-spatial flood vulnerability on each of the five dimensions shown in the legend).

23. Not All Domains Represented For Scotland (See Table A1.2)