A5090029967- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Water resources management and optimization
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Smart Cities and Technologies
The Open University
2019-2023
University of Southampton
2016
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...
Resilience has become a fashionable concept in UK policy-making the last years. Many commentators have interpreted resilience as neoliberal strategy that seeks to responsibilise individuals anticipation of retreat centralised forms risk management and protection. However, haste with which been adopted also means little attention paid how works practice. This article analyses implementation initiative designed build community flooding UK. It argues policy is enabled by long governmental chain...
Abstract Following a series of flood events, the major flooding 2007 finally triggered legislative change through Flood and Water Management Act 2010 proposed introduction Schedule 3 (S3), to provide stronger regulatory system for implementation sustainable drainage systems (SuDS). However, S3 has been abandoned in England favour implementing SuDS “strengthened” planning system. By taking broader governance perspective, this article explores limited uptake strengthened We argue that...
Learning and Action Alliances (LAAs) are becoming an increasingly popular method for overcoming the challenges associated with participatory forms of governance, where decision making requires collaboration between stakeholders. In flood risk management, LAAs provide a mechanism through which institutional participants can come together, share knowledge, innovate, devise solutions to ‘wicked’ problems. While social learning generated at is now well understood, by this translated into action...