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DOI10.1038/s41893-020-0516-7
Disruption of emergency response to vulnerable populations during floods
Yu D.; Yin J.; Wilby R.L.; Lane S.N.; Aerts J.C.J.H.; Lin N.; Liu M.; Yuan H.; Chen J.; Prudhomme C.; Guan M.; Baruch A.; Johnson C.W.D.; Tang X.; Yu L.; Xu S.
发表日期2020
ISSN2398-9629
起始页码728
结束页码736
卷号3期号:9
英文摘要Emergency responders must reach urgent cases within mandatory timeframes, regardless of weather conditions. However, flooding of transport networks can add critical minutes to travel times between dispatch and arrival. Here, we explicitly model the spatial coverage of all Ambulance Service and Fire and Rescue Service stations in England during flooding of varying severity under compliant response times. We show that even low-magnitude floods can lead to a reduction in national-level compliance with mandatory response times and this reduction can be even more dramatic in some urban agglomerations, making the effectiveness of the emergency response particularly sensitive to the expected impacts of future increases in extreme rainfall and flood risk. Underpinning this sensitivity are policies leading to the centralization of the Ambulance Service and the decentralization of the Fire and Rescue Service. The results provide opportunities to identify hotspots of vulnerability (such as care homes, sheltered accommodation, nurseries and schools) for optimizing the distribution of response stations and developing contingency plans for stranded sites. © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种英语
scopus关键词Ambulances; Flood control; Floods; Travel time; Ambulance services; Contingency plans; Emergency responders; Emergency response; Fire and rescue services; Spatial coverage; Transport networks; Urban agglomerations; Emergency services
来源期刊Nature Sustainability
文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/163575
作者单位Geography and Environment, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom; Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; Previsico, Loughborough, United Kingdom; School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; The Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States; Centre for Public Safety Research, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom; Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Yu D.,Yin J.,Wilby R.L.,et al. Disruption of emergency response to vulnerable populations during floods[J],2020,3(9).
APA Yu D..,Yin J..,Wilby R.L..,Lane S.N..,Aerts J.C.J.H..,...&Xu S..(2020).Disruption of emergency response to vulnerable populations during floods.Nature Sustainability,3(9).
MLA Yu D.,et al."Disruption of emergency response to vulnerable populations during floods".Nature Sustainability 3.9(2020).
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