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Flood Risk Management: Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy and Communities book cover

1st Edition

Flood Risk Management Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy and Communities

Edited By Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell, Matilda Becker Copyright 2019
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more
  1. Realities and social constructions in flood risk management. Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell and Matilda Becker

  2. Legal geography and flood risk management in Germany. Matilda Becker

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  3. The changing nature of financing flood damages in Canada. Heather Bond

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  4. Power for change in adapting to coastal flood risk on Curacao in the Caribbean. Lena Fuldauer

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  5. Power shifts in flood risk management: Insights from Italy. Andrea Farcomeni

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  6. ‘Going Dutch’ in flood risk management: how is Dutch flood policy mobilised? Timo Maas

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  7. Flood policy process in Jakarta, Indonesia, using the Multiple Streams model. Thanti Octavianti

  8. A revolving door of policy evolution: Climate change adaptation after Superstorm Sandy. Carey Goldman

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  9. Policy belief change and learning in response to California flooding. Clarke Knight

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  10. The challenges of flood warning systems in the developing world. Mahala McLindin

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  11. Flood warning and recovery in Zimbabwe: some salutary lessons. Abigail Tevera

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  12. Adapting to floods in social housing in the UK: A social justice issue. Diana King and Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

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  13. Emergency intentional flooding: Is social justice adequately considered? Anne Muter

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  14. At the water’s edge: Motivations for floodplain occupation. Laura West Fischer

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  15. Flood insurance maps and the US National Flood Insurance Program: A case for coproduction? Allison Reilly

  16. The effectiveness of social media in flood risk communication. Wenhui Wu

Biography

Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell is Professor of Geography and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Middlesex University, where he founded the Flood Hazard Research Centre in 1970. Since 2010 he has been a Visiting Academic at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is also the editor of the journal Environmental Hazards (Taylor & Francis).

Matilda Becker is a DPhil researcher at the School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford. Her research centres on legal geographies of mineral exploration in the Canadian Arctic. Matilda previously worked as a research assistant on a public engagement project for flood risk management in Yorkshire, England. She graduated from the University of Oxford with an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management.

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