Rising waters in Cockermouth: The impacts of flooding on communities
by Gabriella Goodridge – Flooding severely impacts human populations, accounting for an estimated 157,000 deaths and combined loss of 1891 billion US$ worldwide from 1994-2015 [1]. Floods may also indirectly result in other disasters from small-scale landslides to large scale events like nuclear meltdowns. The UK is no exception to these natural hazards. Cockermouth is…
