scholarly journals Making Birmingham a Flood Resilient City: Challenges and Opportunities

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taiwo Adedeji ◽  
David Proverbs ◽  
Hong Xiao ◽  
Paul Cobbing ◽  
Victor Oladokun
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Water Flooding ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The City

The city of Birmingham has experienced a number of significant flooding events in the past two decades. The impacts of these flood events include physical damage to critical infrastructure, as well as significant losses caused by business interruption and general disruption to communities. Human losses and impacts can be life changing. This study identifies the current challenges and opportunities of managing flood risk in the city of Birmingham, drawing on a desk-based account of current flood risk management (FRM) practice and diagnostic evidence. This interrogation adopts the use of a ‘flood resilience circle model’ to consider ways to address the challenges in a methodological manner aligned to an integrated approach to flood risk management. Solutions aligned to the key FRM stages of prevention, preparation, response and recovery are provided. The findings will be of interest to policy makers and decision makers on how to address current weaknesses in FRM practices towards the prospect of a sustainable approach that improves the resilience of the city and delivers multiple benefits. Recommendations made include the adoption of a blue-green systems approach, the development of a new communication strategy aligned to motivating behaviour change, and improved flood forecasting especially for surface water flooding.

scholarly journals Investigating flood impacts and adaptation measures for the City of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Ketchabaw
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Storm Event ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Wet Weather ◽  
The City

The City of Toronto has had a long history with, and relationship to flooding. The most severe flooding on record in Ontario occurred in October of 1954 when Hurricane Hazel struck the City of Toronto and surrounding areas. This storm event initiated and helped to shape flood risk management and policy planning in the region. Overtime the city`s approach to stormwater and wet weather flows evolved from flood control to management. The current approach is guided by the city`s Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan, an overarching plan to manage water flows in the city. With the expected impacts of climate change further increasing the need to effectively manage water in Toronto, it is important to look at and understand the measures the city is taking to plan for and relieve flood risk into the future. From analysis of existing literature and best practices in urban flood risk management, recommendations for improvements to the current master plan, policies, and management are made.

scholarly journals Investigating flood impacts and adaptation measures for the City of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Ketchabaw
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Storm Event ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Wet Weather ◽  
The City

The City of Toronto has had a long history with, and relationship to flooding. The most severe flooding on record in Ontario occurred in October of 1954 when Hurricane Hazel struck the City of Toronto and surrounding areas. This storm event initiated and helped to shape flood risk management and policy planning in the region. Overtime the city`s approach to stormwater and wet weather flows evolved from flood control to management. The current approach is guided by the city`s Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan, an overarching plan to manage water flows in the city. With the expected impacts of climate change further increasing the need to effectively manage water in Toronto, it is important to look at and understand the measures the city is taking to plan for and relieve flood risk into the future. From analysis of existing literature and best practices in urban flood risk management, recommendations for improvements to the current master plan, policies, and management are made.

scholarly journals Tracing the past: an insight on flood risk management strategies in the development instruments of Bangladesh and Dhaka city

Water Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1142-1162
Author(s):  
Md. Nawrose Fatemi ◽  
Tahmina Rahman ◽  
Michihiro Kita
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
National Level ◽  
National Development ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Risk Management Strategies ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
The City

Abstract Confronting devastating floods regularly is a critical challenge for Bangladesh. Dhaka, the capital and a megacity at the forefront of rapid, unplanned urbanization, has been experiencing consistent challenges and threats of flood since 1954. Since then, to ensure flood protection and control, the city authorities have adapted diverse flood risk management strategies (FRMS). Regardless of the overall progress in flood risk management policies in the national development agenda, the inertness of their implementation means the city remains vulnerable. Along with that, several divergences from the development plans, for instance, the new town development in flood flow zone, the declaration to convert a residential zone into a retention area, illegal acquisition of wetlands for property development have also been observed. Therefore, the objective is to review the diversification of FRMS at the national level and to identify the convergence or divergence on the development plans at the sub-national level, in this case, Dhaka Metropolitan Area. This study provides a commentary to support policy-makers and researchers in integrating FRMS with the development plans at the local level.

scholarly journals How normative interpretations of climate risk assessment affect local decision-making: an exploratory study at the city scale in Cork, Ireland

2018 ◽  
Vol 376 (2121) ◽  
pp. 20170300 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. K. J. McDermott ◽  
S. Surminski
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
The City

Urban areas already suffer substantial losses in both economic and human terms from climate-related disasters. These losses are anticipated to grow substantially, in part as a result of the impacts of climate change. In this paper, we investigate the process of translating climate risk data into action for the city level. We apply a commonly used decision-framework as our backdrop and explore where in this process climate risk assessment and normative political judgements intersect. We use the case of flood risk management in Cork city in Ireland to investigate what is needed for translating risk assessment into action at the local city level. Evidence presented is based on focus group discussions at two stakeholder workshops, and a series of individual meetings and phone-discussions with stakeholders involved in local decision-making related to flood risk management and adaptation to climate change, in Ireland. Respondents were chosen on the basis of their expertise or involvement in the decision-making processes locally and nationally. Representatives of groups affected by flood risk and flood risk management and climate adaptation efforts were also included. The Cork example highlights that, despite ever more accurate data and an increasing range of theoretical approaches available to local decision-makers, it is the normative interpretation of this information that determines what action is taken. The use of risk assessments for decision-making is a process that requires normative decisions, such as setting ‘acceptable risk levels' and identifying ‘adequate’ protection levels, which will not succeed without broader buy-in and stakeholder participation. Identifying and embracing those normative views up-front could strengthen the urban adaptation process—this may, in fact, turn out to be the biggest advantage of climate risk assessment: it offers an opportunity to create a shared understanding of the problem and enables an informed evaluation and discussion of remedial action. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Advances in risk assessment for climate change adaptation policy’.

Resilience and flood risk management

Water Policy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.M. de Bruijn
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Flood Prevention ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Flood Impacts ◽  
Definition Of

Since flood disasters still occur and even increase in frequency and severity, flood risk management must be reconsidered. This paper describes a new way of looking at flood risk management by applying a systems approach. This approach may result in flood risk management that is better suited to the socio-economic context in which this flood risk management occurs. The systems approach allows the definition of resilience and resistance strategies for flood risk management. Resistance strategies aim at flood prevention, while resilience strategies aim at minimising flood impacts and enhancing the recovery from those impacts. A resilience strategy is supposed to be able to better cope with uncertainties than a resistance strategy. To enable the evaluation of resilience and resistance strategies under different conditions the concepts of resilience and resistance must first be sufficiently understood. This paper discusses the meaning of resilience and resistance and applies the concepts to flood risk management systems. This discussion is exemplified by The Netherlands' flood risk management.

scholarly journals An Integrated Approach to Flood Risk Management: A Case Study of Navaluenga (Central Spain)

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 3051-3069 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Ballesteros-Cánovas ◽  
M. Sanchez-Silva ◽  
J. M. Bodoque ◽  
A. Díez-Herrero
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Central Spain
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