Developing a large-scale dataset of flood fatalities for territories in the Euro-Mediterranean region, FFEM-DB

• Autor(a) principal: Papagiannaki, Katerina
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Petrucci, Olga, Diakakis, Michalis, Kotroni, Vassiliki, Aceto, Luigi, Bianchi, Cinzia, Brázdil, Rudolf, Gelabert, Miquel Grimalt, Inbar, Moshe, Kahraman, Abdullah, Kılıç, Özgenur, Krahn, Astrid, Kreibich, Heidi, Llasat, Maria Carmen, Llasat-Botija, Montserrat, Macdonald, Neil, de Brito, Mariana Madruga, Mercuri, Michele, Pereira, Susana, Řehoř, Jan, Geli, Joan Rossello, Salvati, Paola, Vinet, Freddy, Zêzere, José
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/52546
• topic: Climate-change impacts; Natural hazards; Euro-Mediterranean region

This data paper describes the multinational Database of Flood Fatalities from the Euro-Mediterranean region FFEM-DB that hosts data of 2,875 flood fatalities from 12 territories (nine of which represent entire countries) in Europe and the broader Mediterranean region from 1980 to 2020. The FFEM-DB database provides data on fatalities’ profiles, location, and contributing circumstances, allowing researchers and flood risk managers to explore demographic, behavioral, and situational factors, as well as environmental features of flood-related mortality. The standardized data collection and classification methodology enable comparison between regions beyond administrative boundaries. The FFEM-DB is expandable, regularly updated, publicly available, and with anonymized data. The key advantages of the FFEM-DB compared to existing datasets containing flood fatalities are its high level of detail, data accuracy, record completeness, and the large sample size from an extended area.