Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

How long do floods throughout the millennium remain in the collective memory?

  • Václav Fanta,
  • Miroslav Šálek,
  • Petr Sklenicka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09102-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Concept of learning from history assumes that information is handed between generations to avoid negative effect of hazards. Here the authors analysed human behaviour and decision making on post-flood settlements and showed flood memory faded away in two generations, which is insufficient to protect human settlements from rare catastrophic floods.