Mapping Flood Exposure and Consequences in Caravan and Mobile‐Home Parks: A Scoping and Bibliometric Review

ABSTRACT

Caravan and mobile‐home parks combine tourism, housing and communal infrastructure but remain weakly represented in flood‐risk assessment and disaster appraisal. This review maps evidence on their flood exposure, vulnerability and consequences and develops a structured basis for sector‐specific appraisal. A scoping review, reported in accordance with PRISMA‐ScR, searched Scopus and the Web of Science Core Collection for English‐language publications from January 2005 to August 2025, with a primary focus on riverine flooding. Of 25 unique indexed records assessed, seven met the core eligibility criteria, nine were retained as contextual records and nine were excluded. The 16 retained records underwent descriptive bibliographic analysis, while selected historical and operational sources provided additional context. The synthesis identifies three analytical typologies: Tourist/Holiday, Mixed‐use Cabin/RV and Residential/Long‐stay parks, with differing asset, occupancy and consequence profiles. Direct inundation and systemic disruption affect dwellings, communal facilities, utilities, access, business continuity and displacement, while locational context and contamination modify the impacts. Given the small, geographically concentrated literature, the bibliographic findings are interpreted as exploratory metadata patterns rather than full‐text topic modelling or formal study‐quality appraisal. The evidence contains insufficient paired, consistently referenced observations of depth, damage, and cost to establish transferable damage thresholds or typology‐specific stage–damage relationships. The resulting typology–exposure–consequence framework and crosswalk organise receptors, exposure pathways, modifiers and consequence components. They also identify priorities for post‐event data collection and incremental development of caravan‐park‐specific consequence and stage–damage models without implying calibrated predictive relationships.