Participatory and collaborative governance for sustainable flood risk management: An emerging research agenda

Challies, Edward; Newig, Jens; Thaler, Thomas; Kochskämper, Elisa; Levin-Keitel, Meike

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.09.012

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“…This calls for a more integrated and pro-active perspective into the management of disaster risks to broader environmental and development planning across scales [6][7][8][9][10], and building disaster resilience of communities, so that they can "bounce forward" and resume social, ecological, and economic development after disaster events [7,11]. Building community disaster resilience requires evidence-based understanding of disaster risk on the ground, including all dimensions across vulnerability, exposure, and hazard [8], as well as communities' capacities (such as in the form of human, social, physical, financial, and natural capitals) [12].…”

Section: Background: Spatial Risk Information Deficiency Hinders Disamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Building disaster resilience requires a paradigm shift from the over-reliance on top-down expert-led risk information production to a more integrated and polycentric knowledge generation scheme [6,22]. The Sendai Framework also called for "inclusive risk-informed decision-making based on the open exchange and dissemination of disaggregated data .…”

Section: Local Risk Information Generation and Management For Communimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Integrated Participatory and Collaborative Risk Mapping for Enhancing Disaster Resilience

Liu

Dugar²,

McCallum

et al. 2018

IJGI

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Critical knowledge gaps seriously hinder efforts for building disaster resilience at all levels, especially in disaster-prone least developed countries. Information deficiency is most serious at local levels, especially in terms of spatial information on risk, resources, and capacities of communities. To tackle this challenge, we develop a general methodological approach that integrates community-based participatory mapping processes, one that has been widely used by governments and non-government organizations in the fields of natural resources management, disaster risk reduction and rural development, with emerging collaborative digital mapping techniques. We demonstrate the value and potential of this integrated participatory and collaborative mapping approach by conducting a pilot study in the flood-prone lower Karnali river basin in Western Nepal. The process engaged a wide range of stakeholders and non-stakeholder citizens to co-produce locally relevant geographic information on resources, capacities, and flood risks of selected communities. The new digital community maps are richer in content, more accurate, and easier to update and share than those produced by conventional Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (VCAs), a variant of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), that is widely used by various government and non-government organizations. We discuss how this integrated mapping approach may provide an effective link between coordinating and implementing local disaster risk reduction and resilience building interventions to designing and informing regional development plans, as well as its limitations in terms of technological barrier, map ownership, and empowerment potential.

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Section: Background: Spatial Risk Information Deficiency Hinders Disamentioning

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Section: Local Risk Information Generation and Management For Communimentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Participatory and Collaborative Risk Mapping for Enhancing Disaster Resilience

Liu

Dugar²,

McCallum

et al. 2018

IJGI

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“…Due to its importance, stakeholders and experts should be engaged into this step of MCDM problems [50,51]. Specially, in a SFM framework, stakeholder participation is a core element [25,52,53]. Here, a participatory-based approach is used to capture the opinions of the stakeholders and experts and incorporate them into the flood hazard mapping process.…”

Section: Sustainability-based Flood Hazard Mappingmentioning

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Sustainability-Based Flood Hazard Mapping of the Swannanoa River Watershed

2017

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An integrated framework is presented for sustainability-based flood hazard mapping of the Swannanoa River watershed in the state of North Carolina, U.S. The framework uses a hydrologic model for rainfall-runoff transformation, a two-dimensional unsteady hydraulic model flood simulation and a GIS-based multi-criteria decision-making technique for flood hazard mapping. Economic, social, and environmental flood hazards are taken into account. The importance of each hazard is quantified through a survey to the experts. Utilizing the proposed framework, sustainability-based flood hazard mapping is performed for the 100-year design event. As a result, the overall flood hazard is provided in each geographic location. The sensitivity of the overall hazard with respect to the weights of the three hazard components were also investigated. While the conventional flood management approach is to assess the environmental impacts of mitigation measures after a set of feasible options are selected, the presented framework incorporates the environmental impacts into the analysis concurrently with the economic and social influences. Thereby, it provides a more sustainable perspective of flood management and can greatly help the decision makers to make better-informed decisions by clearly understanding the impacts of flooding on economy, society and environment.

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“…. stakeholder engagement and public participation are seen as central to effective FRM" ( [49], p. 275) and to developing more accurate and effective flood risk planning, solutions and responses at the local level, such as community flood groups and flood plans; property level protection; mapping and identifying need and vulnerability, and so forth [49]. This is further reflected in the UK government's national response plans to flooding events: Making Space for Water strategy [50], the Pitt Review [43], the Water and Flood Risk Management Act, UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017: Projections of Future Flood Risk [44], and the National Flood Resilience Review [45].…”

Section: Nexus Shocks At the Local Level: A Focus On Flooding And Heamentioning

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Decision-Making and Building Resilience to Nexus Shocks Locally: Exploring Flooding and Heatwaves in the UK

Howarth

Brooks

2017

Sustainability

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There has been a policy shift towards localism in the UK driving responses and decision-making processes to respond to the impacts of climate change. This shift capitalizes on local expertise and knowledge, empowering communities to take ownership of response strategies, with an increased focus on building resilience to nexus shocks. This comes at a time when the ability of local authorities to lead responses to nexus shocks is decreasing due to lack of capacity, funding and a statutory requirement to better respond to the impacts of climate change. We examine local resilience to nexus shocks and climate impacts as a complex process of collaboration, communication, adaptation, learning from past events and preparing for future shocks. Drawing on examples of resilience to extreme weather events in the UK, this review paper assesses: (1) local responses to nexus shocks in the UK; (2) how and what evidence is used to inform decision-making in response to nexus shocks; and (3) how stakeholders increase local resilience to nexus shocks when faced with gaps in knowledge. We outline possible ways to extrapolate these insights beyond the UK context.

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Participatory and collaborative governance for sustainable flood risk management: An emerging research agenda

Cited by 76 publications

References 47 publications

Integrated Participatory and Collaborative Risk Mapping for Enhancing Disaster Resilience

Integrated Participatory and Collaborative Risk Mapping for Enhancing Disaster Resilience

Sustainability-Based Flood Hazard Mapping of the Swannanoa River Watershed

Decision-Making and Building Resilience to Nexus Shocks Locally: Exploring Flooding and Heatwaves in the UK

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