How do people behave during flash floods and why? Lessons for the prediction of the human vulnerability dynamics in short-fuse weather events

Social scientists have a long history of documenting disasters and natural extreme events’ behavioural response through the collection of perishable post-event data. Such empirical and theoretical foundations constitute a strong background to understand crisis responses and advance our knowledge of the drivers of human behavioural responses to fast evolving weather-related events. Outputs from this field of research show that public warning and behavioural response is a social process that takes several phases before a protective action is put in place.