Building local/lay flood knowledges into community flood resilience planning after the July 2007 floods, Gloucestershire, UK

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 675-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey McEwen ◽  
Owain Jones
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Flood Experience

A UK Cabinet Office review after the 2007 floods highlighted different types of knowledge needed for effective flood risk management, along with knowledge gaps. This paper explores key, emerging aspects of this expanded knowledge base, namely relationships between expert and local/lay knowledges, the changing nature of local knowledge of community flood risk, and how attempts are being made to incorporate local knowledge into science, policy and practice. Sustainable flood knowledge, as an aspiration, integrates expert, local and political knowledge to build community flood resilience. The research involved stakeholder interviews undertaken before and after the 2007 floods, Severn catchment, UK and examination of policy documentation. The paper focuses on scale issues in relation to knowledge types suggesting that local knowledge can be ‘expert’ in large-scale mapping of flood processes. It reflects on how local flood knowledges can be captured, shared, harnessed and used, and assimilated into governance structures for flood resilience planning. The paper recognises progress in integrating local knowledges in flood science and governance, but also highlights challenges. It concludes that the 2007 UK flood experience is generating new understandings of the value of local knowledges, and how these might be successfully used in flood risk management practice.

scholarly journals Characterising Local Knowledge across the Flood Risk Management Cycle: A Case Study of Southern Malawi

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Šakić Trogrlić ◽  
Grant Wright ◽  
Melanie Duncan ◽  
Marc van den Homberg ◽  
Adebayo Adeloye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Complex Knowledge

People possess a creative set of strategies based on their local knowledge (LK) that allow them to stay in flood-prone areas. Stakeholders involved with local level flood risk management (FRM) often overlook and underutilise this LK. There is thus an increasing need for its identification, documentation and assessment. Based on qualitative research, this paper critically explores the notion of LK in Malawi. Data was collected through 15 focus group discussions, 36 interviews and field observation, and analysed using thematic analysis. Findings indicate that local communities have a complex knowledge system that cuts across different stages of the FRM cycle and forms a component of community resilience. LK is not homogenous within a community, and is highly dependent on the social and political contexts. Access to LK is not equally available to everyone, conditioned by the access to resources and underlying causes of vulnerability that are outside communities’ influence. There are also limits to LK; it is impacted by exogenous processes (e.g., environmental degradation, climate change) that are changing the nature of flooding at local levels, rendering LK, which is based on historical observations, less relevant. It is dynamic and informally triangulated with scientific knowledge brought about by development partners. This paper offers valuable insights for FRM stakeholders as to how to consider LK in their approaches.

scholarly journals Integrated methodologies for flood risk management practice in European pilot sites

2008 ◽  
pp. 837-838
Author(s):  
J Schanze ◽  
P Bakonyi ◽  
M Borga ◽  
B Gouldby ◽  
M Marchand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Flood Risk Management

Perceptions and deeply held beliefs about responsibility for flood risk adaptation in Accra Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 631-644
Author(s):  
Jerry Chati Tasantab ◽  
Thayaparan Gajendran ◽  
Jason von Meding ◽  
Kim Maund
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Flood Hazards ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Content Type

Purpose Climate change is predicted to increase the vulnerability of urban populations to flood hazards. Against this backdrop, flood risk adaptation has become pertinent. However, in Ghana, current flood risk management practice is fostered by a reactive culture. There is limited research on how communities and government agencies are engaging with flood risk adaptation in improving resilience. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse the culture of communities and agencies through the cultural theory of risk (CTR), towards understanding the flood risk adaptation in Accra, Ghana. Culture is deciphered using the beliefs held by residents and public agency officials. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative methodology, underpinned by the constructivist paradigm, was adopted to understand factors that influence flood risk adaptation in informal settlements. Data was gathered using household and institutional interviews in Glefe, Accra, Ghana. Findings The results show that both disaster risk management institutions and community members are deeply concerned about current and future flood risk. However, their cultural beliefs concerning flood risk and adaptation are contradictory, broadly framed by fatalist, individualist and hierarchist beliefs. The contradictory emergent beliefs contribute to a clash of expectations and create uncertainty about how to respond to flood risk, impacting the implementation of required adaptation measures. Developing a collaborative flood risk management framework and a shared understanding of adaptation approaches may be a better alternative. Originality/value This paper advances understanding of how culture influences flood risk adaptation in developing country context.

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Assessment on Flood Risk Impact: A Methodological Review Toward Environmental Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 943 (1) ◽  
pp. 012010
Author(s):  
A Samsuddin ◽  
Z K Kaman ◽  
N Mat Husin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Economic Assessment ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Socio Economic Impact ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The disastrous events of land flooding prompt an urgency to flood risk management to counterpart this issue with the concept of flood damage divided into four types: direct, indirect, tangible, and intangible. This paper reviewed previous articles regarding flood risk management with a specific focus on methods used for socio-economic impact assessment towards ensuring a sustainable environment. The methodological approach can be sorted into four (4) main types group which are i) historical disaster statistic method, ii) index system method, iii) scenario simulation analysis, and iv) GIS-based approach. Among others, the integrated GIS-based approach becomes the most practical method in conducting socio-economic assessment for flood risk impact. As most of the socio-economic impact-based studies are conducted in western countries, this paper proposed the idea that for different types of countries such as the Asian countries, differences in topography, weather and seasons will lead to a different scale or possibly different types of socio-economic impact, which may require a new approach of assessing the impact. It is also proposed that any socioeconomic and environmental impact assessment needs to explicitly consider both direct and indirect impact. This is to ensure the approach used is holistic, valid, reliable, and more accurately reflect the real nature of the respective flood risk while the gap of the studies also can be identified.

Identifying different types of individual flood precautionary behaviour from panel data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Berghäuser ◽  
Philip Bubeck ◽  
Paul Hudson ◽  
Annegret H. Thieken
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Classification Methods ◽  
Survey Period ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Integrated Flood Risk Management ◽  
Precautionary Measures

<p>Individual precautionary behaviour towards and in response to flooding has received much attention in current research, as precautionary behaviour can reduce flood impacts considerably. Therefore, private precautionary measures are increasingly considered in integrated flood risk management plans. Integrated flood risk management requires that all stakeholders threatened by flooding undertake action to limit adverse impacts. However, our current understanding of private precautionary measure employment has mostly been drawn from cross-sectional studies, i.e. data from one-time snapshots. While cross-sectional data has its uses in understanding individual behaviour and its drivers, other questions require the use of panel data, i.e. repeated surveys of the same individuals in order to correctly identify and understand temporal behavioural dynamics which cross-sectional data is unable to capture. <br>Here we use panel data to identify different types of dynamic adaptive behaviour. We applied and compared two classification methods to panel data from 227 individual households who were repeatedly interviewed across Germany about their implementation of precautionary measures after the widespread flood of June 2013: Latent Class Growth Analysis (LCGA) and Cluster Analysis based on k-means for longitudinal data. Results indicate three different groups of adaptive behavior over the survey period that are identified by both classification methods: (I) a group that maintains a “high standard” of protection, (II) a “performer” group that implements a fare share of precautionary measures after the flood and during the survey period and (III) a “non adaptive” group that shows little or no implementation of precautionary measures. As a considerable share of flood-prone residents did almost not adapt, results indicate that specific risk communications and funding schemes are needed in order to trigger adaptation of this group.</p>

scholarly journals Large-scale stochastic flood hazard analysis applied to the Po River

2020 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 2027-2049
Author(s):  
A. Curran ◽  
Karin De Bruijn ◽  
Alessio Domeneghetti ◽  
Federica Bianchi ◽  
M. Kok ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Extreme Event ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Stochastic Methods ◽  
Po River

Abstract Reliable hazard analysis is crucial in the flood risk management of river basins. For the floodplains of large, developed rivers, flood hazard analysis often needs to account for the complex hydrology of multiple tributaries and the potential failure of dikes. Estimating this hazard using deterministic methods ignores two major aspects of large-scale risk analysis: the spatial–temporal variability of extreme events caused by tributaries, and the uncertainty of dike breach development. Innovative stochastic methods are here developed to account for these uncertainties and are applied to the Po River in Italy. The effects of using these stochastic methods are compared against deterministic equivalents, and the methods are combined to demonstrate applications for an overall stochastic hazard analysis. The results show these uncertainties can impact extreme event water levels by more than 2 m at certain channel locations, and also affect inundation and breaching patterns. The combined hazard analysis allows for probability distributions of flood hazard and dike failure to be developed, which can be used to assess future flood risk management measures.

scholarly journals Correction to: Strengthening Pluvial Flood Risk Management in the Southeast Region of Bangladesh: Lessons Learnt from the EU Policy and Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 383-386
Author(s):  
Mohammad Jahir Uddin ◽  
Mohammad Mehedi Hasan ◽  
Steven J. Eisenreich ◽  
Philippe Quevauviller
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Southeast Region ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals Move from Resilience Conceptualization to Resilience Enhancement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangwei Huang ◽  
Juan Fan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Mathematical Formulation ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Flood Disaster ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Important Message

This chapter provides an analysis of various resilience definitions and depicts the differences in definition between engineering, ecological and socio-ecological resilience in an easy-to-understand graphic representation. It also articulates commons and differences between conventional flood risk management and resilience-based flood management and presents a mathematical formulation to facilitate resilience discussion. Furthermore, it highlights some studies and initiatives towards the operationalization of the resilience concept in flood disaster management practice. The most important message this chapter is intended to deliver is that resilience is not just about bouncing back. Indeed, it should be enhanced to bounce forward.

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