Flood Risk Management

Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy and Communities

Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell, Matilda Becker, Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell, Matilda Becker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781351009980
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world. Demonstrating the diversity of global flood risk management (FRM), this volume covers a range of topics including planning and policy, risk governance and communication, forecasting and warning, and economics. Through short case studies, the range of international examples from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa provide analysis of FRM efforts, processes and issues from human, governance and policy implementation perspectives. Written by an international set of authors, this collection of chapters and case studies will allow the reader to see how floods and flood risk management is experienced in different regions of the world. The way in which institutions manage flood risk is discussed, introducing the notions of realities and social constructions when it comes to risk management.

The book will be of great interest to students and professionals of flood, coastal, river and natural hazard management, as well as risk analysis and insurance, demonstrating multiple academic frameworks of analysis and their utility and drawbacks when applied to real-life FRM contexts.

Index

Flood Risk Management INDEX frmb1m

accountability 7–10, 12, 20, 51, 185

actor mapping 43–8, 50, 53, 55

actor-network theory 44, 47

adaptation 43–57, 71, 91–102, 115, 125, 141–52, 170, 193, 198

Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) 79, 94, 99–100, 103–12; and deep core beliefs 104–7, 112; and secondary beliefs 104

Afghanistan 122, 125

Africa 71, 118–19, 132

agency/agencies /agents 1–6, 9, 12, 26, 44, 47, 50–3, 98–99; and coastal floods 55; and flood insurance maps 177, 181–2, 184, 186; and policy belief change 104–6, 108, 110–11; and policy mobilisation 70; and power shifts 59–60; and social media 189, 191–2, 194, 196, 198; and warning systems 117–21, 123, 126, 133, 138

agenda-setting 4, 17, 51, 60, 66, 80–1, 84, 86–8, 91, 94–8, 124, 168

Agosto Filion, N. 96–7

Alameda Reservoir 154

Albrecht, J. 20

Albright, E. 104–5

alienation 9

Amazon River 119

Argentina 79

Aristotle 59

Arnell, N. 33–6

Arroyo, V. 97

Asia 81, 118–19, 125; and the Babai River 126; and Central Asia 118; and the Kamala River 126

assemblages 70, 74

Assiniboine River 153–5, 162

Association of British Insurers (ABI) 145, 147

Atlantic 172

Australia 17, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• INTRODUCTION
• A. GOVERNANCE
• B. POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION
• C. COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE
• Index