Flood Risk and Community Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Approach / Edition 1

by Lindsey Jo McEwen

Overview

This book details the impact of flooding on our environment, and the ways in which communities, and those that work with them, can act to manage the associated risks.

Flooding is an increasingly significant environmental hazard which inflicts major costs to the economies and livelihoods of developed countries. This book explores how local communities can identify, manage, and adapt to the ever-increasing damage flooding causes. Focusing on the future role of local communities, the benefits and challenges of their involvement, and the potential areas of transformation, this book provides insights into the efficacy of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary working. Alongside research into similar environmental hazards, this book also draws upon the author’s own knowledge of flood risk management in distinctive non-contiguous interdisciplinary settings. The chapters draw together a different and distinctive set of interdisciplinary themes in flood risk management and social resilience. In doing so, it strives to communicate the different ways of thinking that can usefully contribute to flood risk management.

This book would be ideal for those researching flood risk management, alongside scholars and non-scholars alike who are interested in finding ways of adapting to environmental hazards working with local communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138954458
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/27/2024
Series:	Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lindsey Jo McEwen is Professor of Environmental Management and Director of the Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Interdisciplinary explorations in communities and their resilience to changing flood risk: an introduction

Chapter 2 Different flood types and diverse communities: interactions, impacts and management at local level

Chapter 3 Flood hazard perception, awareness, and action: from individual to community?

Chapter 4 Different flood knowledges: conflict or integration?

Chapter 5 Linking flood heritage and local community resilience

Chapter 6 Communicating flood science for community resilience

Chapter 7 Flood management strategies and their relation to community awareness and action

Chapter 8 Community participation and agency in local flood risk management

Chapter 9 Community learning for flood resilience: strategies and pitfalls

Chapter 10 Community resilience to flood risk: futures, challenges and opportunities