Socio-Hydrology: Including Human Behavior in Flood Risk Models

This socio-environmental modeling case study, by James Knighton, Kelly Hondula, and Margaret Palmer, provides examples of the use of socio-hydrological modeling to understand the difficult problems associated with flooding. Drawing on two papers that use different approaches to explore social dimensions associated with flooding risk and losses, this video covers four related topics: 1. A generalized process-based modeling for simulating community responses to infrequent disasters 2. Use of a machine learning modeling approach to relate disaster and loss to socio-economic conditions 3. What significant amounts of data are needed for both of these modeling approaches. 4. A comparison of the two approaches and the types of research and planning they support.