A5048326537- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Housing Market and Economics
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Water resources management and optimization
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Construction Project Management and Performance
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- BIM and Construction Integration
- Noise Effects and Management
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Coastal and Marine Management
University of the West of England
2015-2024
Portland State University
2015
University of Wolverhampton
2006-2011
World Bank
2011
Coventry University
2011
London School of Economics and Political Science
2011
There is a recognised need for fundamental change in how the UK manages urban water and flood risk response to increasingly frequent rainfall events coupled with planned expansion. Approaches centred on 'living making space water' are adopted internationally. Nonetheless, widespread implementation of Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) currently hampered by barriers that impede uptake innovation. We investigate BGI Newcastle, UK, through series semi-structured interviews professional...
Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is an approach to urban flood resilience, recognised globally and in international literature, that capitalises on the benefits of working with green-spaces naturalised water-flows. Literature reveals BGI’s sustainable functioning benefits-provision depend behaviour those who use it, therefore local stewardship often proposed support maintenance. However, there a gap understanding requirements behaviours users, as well their potential for developing...
The long term psychological effect of the distress and trauma caused by memory damage losses associated with flooding communities remains an under researched impact flooding. This is particularly important for that are likely to be repeatedly flooded where levels mental health disorder will resilience future There a variety factors affect prevalence disorders in aftermath including pre-existing health, socio-economic flood severity. However previous research has tended focus on short impacts...
The changing risk of flooding associated with climate change presents different challenges for the flood insurance market models in use around world, which vary respect consumer structure and their transfer mechanism. A review international has been undertaken against three broad criteria functioning sustainability a scheme: knowing nature insurable risk; availability an population; presence solvent insurer. solvency markets appears strong, partly because insurers reinsurers can choose to...
Abstract Achieving urban flood resilience at local, regional and national levels requires a transformative change in planning, design implementation of water systems. Flood risk, wastewater stormwater management should be re-envisaged transformed to: ensure satisfactory service delivery under flood, normal drought conditions, enhance extend the useful lives ageing grey assets by supplementing them with multi-functional Blue-Green infrastructure. The aim multidisciplinary Urban Resilience...
Flood and water management governance may be enhanced through partnership working, intra- cross-organisational collaborations, wide stakeholder participation. Nonetheless, barriers associated with ineffective communication, fragmented responsibilities 'siloed thinking' restrict open dialogue discussion. The Learning Action Alliance (LAA) framework help overcome these by enabling effective engagement social learning, facilitating targeted actions needed to deliver innovative solutions...
Abstract Green Infrastructure ( GI ) is an increasingly popular means of dealing with flooding and water quality issues worldwide. This study examines public perceptions of, behaviour around, bioswales, which are a facility in the United States. Bioswales highly visible interventions requiring support from residents policy‐makers to be implemented maintained appropriately. To understand how residents' attitudes might develop over time, we interviewed Portland, Oregon, living near bioswales...
A Blue-Green City aims to recreate a naturally-oriented water cycle while contributing the amenity of city by bringing management and green infrastructure together.The approach is more than stormwater strategy aimed at improving quality providing flood risk benefits.It can also provide important ecosystem services socio-cultural benefits when urban system in non-flood condition.However, quantitative evaluation appraisal relative significance each benefit given location are not well...
Urban resilience is a key focus of current approaches to flood management. The notion encompasses pre-disaster planning and warning systems, emergency handling procedures post-disaster reconstruction. Both human physical systems are involved at all stages. success programmes relies on the cooperation floodplain populations—for example, increasing installation structural flood-resistant resilient features requires significant commitment from property owners. Knowledge common populations can...
Flood risk insurance can be an effective tool in assisting the restoration of damaged property after a flood event and sustaining communities through difficult times. It also form part wider management strategy. In light recent events UK context changing markets, universal cover previously enjoyed by floodplain residents has been called into question. Conflicting media industry views leave resident community confusion. A survey England regarding their experience with flooding undertaken. The...
Solid waste management is a large and growing problem for countries in the developing world often neglected aspect of urban management.However, poor can contribute to impact flooding by blocking drainage, increasing debris harbouring disease vectors.A review literature analysis case studies (both from examples collected preparation global flood handbook) confirm that solid an emerging issue risk practice.Approaches improve included municipal programmes locally based community schemes.It was...
A critical element of current flood management is the importance engaging key policy actors when decisions are to be made. However, there still only limited understanding how narratives may influence policies, even though a suggestion that can strategically use their directions. In developing country like Nigeria, questions around lessons learnt from actors, unravel complex nature strategies and directions in managing urban floods. To help fill these gaps, this paper uses quantitative...
The increase in frequency and severity of flood events the UK has highlighted question impact flooding on value property. Previous studies internationally have measured a wide variety impacts from no to discounts more than 40 per cent property price. Transactional measurements not previously been attempted market due lack available data. In order improve evidence base, variation repeat sales methodology used measure price transacted residential for 13 locations UK. results reveal be highly...
Sustainable drainage systems or ‘Suds’ are increasingly accepted as an effective means of ‘making space for water’, adapting to possible climate change and helping communities become more flood drought resilient. This study explores potential shifts in perception attitude through Suds installation, development habituation. Attitudes awareness the USA UK, where have been place some time, were compared contrasted, examining any evolution beliefs practices wider community resilience. The...
Amphibious buildings use the buoyancy principle in design of their foundation systems to mitigate flood impact. In some cases, amphibious are fitted with mechanical that further aid element temporarily raise building and guide its descent natural ground level. These require external operation, preventing from passively responding during events as is one requirements a robust mitigation measure. Additionally, environments often left stains on exterior facade floodwater contamination sewage...
The rapid growth of cities under modern development pressure has resulted in surface water flooding becoming an increasing hazard and future climate change uncertainties may exacerbate this threat still further: retrofitting sustainable drainage systems to attenuate stormwater runoff been advocated as part integrated solution required address problem. Many these adaptations not only enhance a community's resilience flooding, but also offer additional benefits terms improved environmental...
Purpose Flood resilience is emerging as a major component of an integrated strategic approach to flood risk management. This recognizes that some flooding inevitable and aligns with the concept “living water.” Resilience measurement key in making business case for investments resilient retrofits/adaptations, could potentially be used inform design new developments prone areas. The literature is, however, sparse on frameworks measuring resilience. purpose this paper describe development fuzzy...
Floods often cause significant damage to transportation infrastructure such as roads, railways, and bridges. This study identifies several topographic, environmental, hydrological factors (slope, elevation, rainfall, land use cover, distance from rivers, geology, topographic wetness index, drainage density) influencing the safety of railway uses multi-criteria analysis (MCA) alongside an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) produce flood susceptibility maps within a geographic information...