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 ## Summary
 Flood vulnerability analysis and assessment are urgently needed to improve urban-risk management and to protect the local population. Our aim was to deliver an adapted approach for an integrated vulnerability assessment for data-scarce areas by combining different disciplinary perspectives with local knowledge.An integrated way of understanding vulnerability is by means of a **social-ecological vulnerability assessment (SEVA)**. SEVA is defined “_as the extent to which environmental degradation and climate change cause negative changes in exposure, susceptibility and in the capacity of the social-ecological system to anticipate, cope with and recover from the hazard_” [^2].