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The purpose of this publication is to present a set of strategies, based on the lessons learned from the devastating flood that occurred on 19 of June 2014 in Asparuhovo district to the city of Varna, Bulgaria to improve flood resilience of local people. For this purpose, a methodological approach based on the concepts of risk and risk management at the catchment level is applied. The first concept presents risk as the result of the societies’ exposure to flood hazards in time, space, and their vulnerability. The ...

The aim of the study is to analyze the natural and anthropogenic factors and long-term processes that explained the intensity and scale of the flood disaster that occurred on 19.06.2014 in Varna. For this purpose two related models of disaster – ‘Pressure and Release model’ (PAR model) and ‘Access model’ are applied. The PAR model shows how the causes of vulnerability can be traced back from unsafe conditions, through economic and social (dynamic) pressures, to underlying root causes. The idea is that a disaster i...