Flood Risk Management and Resilience

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, flood risk management approaches have shifted towards the improved management of flood risk using integrated approaches that embody resilience and more sustainable solutions. This acknowledges that some flooding will inevitably occur and adopts approaches that help to reduce its impacts, while improving resilience and speeding up recovery processes. This is embraced in terms such as ‘build back better’ and ‘bounce-backability’.

While structural measures such as flood defences, dams and levees have been put in place to provide protection against flooding, a number of innovative approaches have also been developed towards reducing the impacts of flooding, including natural flood risk management, sustainable drainage systems and property flood resilience. This is a multi-disciplinary domain with, for example, psychological resilience focusing on an understanding of human behaviour, while engineering resilience focuses on technical resilience.

Another issue in improving flood resilience relates to the existence of many stakeholders with a wide-ranging interest in preparedness, emergency response, recovery and reconstruction. These stakeholders range from those who are directly affected by flood events, as well as those that are capable of influencing decisions on the nature and types of integrated approaches that embody resilience. Therefore, from a governance and policymaking perspective, it is important to ensure that there is equity and justice in balancing stakeholder interests across a specific landscape.

The aim of this Special Issue is to draw together the latest multi- and interdisciplinary research in the domain of resilience to flood risk, drawing on a wide range of expertise and applications (as captured in the keywords below) to provide a state-of-the-art collection of research connected to improving our understanding and approaches to becoming a more flood-resilient society. This Special Issue is designed deliberately to be multi-disciplinary and diverse in scope—we welcome contributions from all disciplines that can meaningfully inform the future agenda.

Prof. Dr. David Proverbs
Prof. Dr. Bingunath Ingirige
Guest Editors

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