Findings from Middlesex University in Flood Risk Management Reported (Recognition of Differences In the Capacity To Deal With Floods-a Cross-country Comparison of Flood Risk Management): Risk Management – Flood Risk Management

2024 FEB 05 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Risk Management - Flood Risk Management. According to news originating from London, United Kingdom, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Flood risks worldwide are increasing due to climate change. Managing these risks is ever more necessary.”

Financial supporters for this research include Research Council of Finland, Economic and Social Research Council in the UK, Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Middlesex University, “Although flood risk management (FRM) is often understood as a technical challenge, it also involves decisions about the distribution of resources and risks in floods, which can be inherently unfair. People are disparately affected by floods due to their location. Because of their various socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, they also differ in their capacity to deal with floods. These differences need to be recognised in FRM to prevent disproportionate impacts on vulnerable communities. However, at present, a knowledge gap exists on how to make FRM more inclusive and just, and discussions on recognition justice in the context of FRM are scarce. This article therefore examines recognition of differences in the capacity of people to deal with floods in FRM in England (United Kingdom), Finland, Flanders (Belgium) and France. We analyse if, and how, these differences are recognised in FRM policy and practice and through decision-making procedures, drawing on examples from the implementation of five FRM strategies in each country (flood risk prevention, flood defence, flood risk mitigation, flood preparation and flood recovery).”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Furthermore, we aim to highlight opportunity spaces to strengthen recognition justice in future FRM.”

For more information on this research see: Recognition of Differences In the Capacity To Deal With Floods-a Cross-country Comparison of Flood Risk Management. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2024. Journal of Flood Risk Management can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Journal of Flood Risk Management - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1753-318X)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Glen Smith, Middlesex University, Flood Hazard Res Ctr Fhrc, London NW4 4BT, United Kingdom. Additional authors for this research include Mandy Paauw, Ann Crabbe, Sally Priest, Marie Fournier, Johan Munck af Rosenschold and Aino Rekola.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12965. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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