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Gender-Related Differences in Flood Risk Perception and Behaviours among Private Groundwater Users in the Republic of Ireland

Abstract

Extreme weather events including flooding can have severe personal, infrastructural, and economic consequences, with recent evidence pointing to surface flooding as a pathway for the microbial contamination of private groundwater supplies. There is a pressing need for increasingly focused information and awareness campaigns to highlight the risks posed by extreme weather events and appropriate subsequent post-event actions. To date, little is …

Authors

McDowell CP; Andrade L; O’Neill E; O’Malley K; O’Dwyer J; Hynds PD

Journal

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 17, No. 6,

Publisher

MDPI

Publication Date

March 1, 2020

DOI

10.3390/ijerph17062072

ISSN

1661-7827