Configurations of community in flood risk management

Abstract

Despite a notable increase in the literature on community resilience, the notion of 'community' remains underproblematised. This is evident within flood risk management (FRM) literature, in which the understanding and roles of communities may be acknowledged

Critical infrastructure vulnerability: a research note on adaptation to climate change in the Nordic countries

“…Their relevance for infrastructure research can be highlighted both methodologically -as research sites that can reveal valuable interconnections -and ontologically, because they are important actors in a wide variety of sectors, and many kinds of infrastructures are actually rooted in municipalities, both concretely and in terms of administration and liability. The kinds of problem solving, risk and vulnerability analyses, planning practices, policies, and general approaches to doing things in municipalities could be shifted to respond to the long-term impacts of climate change (Glaas et al, 2010;Gundersen et al, 2016;Räsänen et al, 2020), and concrete climate change measures in municipalities can demonstrate how to create much needed synergies and complementarities between climate change adaptation and mitigation (Kongsager, 2015(Kongsager, , 2018.…”

Building constituencies for flood risk management: Critical insights from a flood defences dispute in Ireland

“…In response to some of these challenges, a range of potential modifications to hazards management policy, decision‐making, and governance have been proposed. These have included exploring the potential for coproduction of hazard risk knowledge (Fitton & Moncaster, 2018; Landstrom et al, 2011; S. N. Lane et al, 2010; Minucci et al, 2020) the integration of human perceptions of the environment and urban design into flood risk management (O'Neill, 2018), developing better understandings of the complex ways in which communities are constituted and the roles of those communities within disaster risk reduction (Rasanen, Kauppinen, et al, 2020; Rasanen, Lein, et al, 2020), and the potential for increased knowledge sharing to enhance opportunities for community participation (Revez et al, 2017). These recent concerns continue ongoing reflections within hazards research which has often struggled with “the challenge of translating knowledge into better governance” (Cook & Melo Zurita, 2019, p. 56).…”