All Outputs (28)
Resilience through flood memory-A comparison of the role of insurance and experience in flood resilience for households and businesses in England (2021)
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Resilience to flooding is influenced by adaptations or behavior that address risk reduction at all stages of the disaster cycle. This includes: physical adaptation of buildings to limit damage; individual preparedness and business continuity planning... Read More about Resilience through flood memory-A comparison of the role of insurance and experience in flood resilience for households and businesses in England.
Understanding citizen and community behaviours and preferences (2020)
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Stakeholder engagement - developing a blue-green vision (2019)
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Local community preferences, understandings and behaviours (2019)
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This chapter:
• Provides an introduction to the long term engagement of local communities with BGI, and gives an overview of recent relevant literature
• Lists the main stakeholders for WSUD, and discusses different ways to conceptualise communit... Read More about Local community preferences, understandings and behaviours.
Towards complete property–level flood protection of domestic buildings in the UK (2018)
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Property flood resilience (PFR) is an important aspect within an integrated approach to flood risk reduction. In the UK this has resulted in a plethora of products and recommended measures to minimise the ingress of water to the millions of propertie... Read More about Towards complete property–level flood protection of domestic buildings in the UK.
Data collection for a better understanding of what causes flood damage – Experiences with telephone surveys (2017)
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Starting after the severe flood event of August 2002, computer‐aided telephone interviews (CATI) have repeatedly been used in Germany to remotely collect large standardized data sets on flood losses and possible influencing factors by questioning aff... Read More about Data collection for a better understanding of what causes flood damage – Experiences with telephone surveys.
Flood resilient construction and adaptation of buildings (2017)
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Flood resilient construction has become an essential component of the integrated approach to flood risk management, now widely accepted through the concepts of making space for water and living with floods. Resilient construction has been in place fo... Read More about Flood resilient construction and adaptation of buildings.
Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage (2016)
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This chapter explored relevant literature and touched on a variety of tools that can contribute to the estimation of the costs of implementing and maintaining SuDS, and the evaluation of flood damage reduction, stormwater management and other benefit... Read More about Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage.
Green roof and permeable paving retrofit to mitigate pluvial flooding (2016)
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Green roof retrofit is seen to be to be an important part of climate adaptation strategies for CBDs generally and in Melbourne in particular. Retrofit of perrmeable paving is also an important SUDs approach within crowded CBDs. The potential for miti... Read More about Green roof and permeable paving retrofit to mitigate pluvial flooding.
Green infrastructure and urban water management (2015)
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This chapter will first outline the many challenges water poses in modern society, considering the increasing frequency and severity of flooding and droughts as inevitable outcomes of potential climate change and increasing impermeable ground-cover t... Read More about Green infrastructure and urban water management.
Flood risk vs property value: A sector specific market perception study of commercial properties (2015)
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This study examines the perception of commercial property occupiers in the context of flood risk and property value. Relevant literature was reviewed to understand the factors affecting perception of commercial property occupiers. Questionnaire surve... Read More about Flood risk vs property value: A sector specific market perception study of commercial properties.
Water management, urban development and health (2015)
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The Role of Market-Based Flood Insurance in Maintaining Communities at Risk of Flooding: A SWOT Analysis (2014)
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. Flood insurance can be seen as an alternative to massively increased investment in harder flood risk management measures, as it has the potential to mitigate the effects of flooding and maintain c... Read More about The Role of Market-Based Flood Insurance in Maintaining Communities at Risk of Flooding: A SWOT Analysis.
Balancing Flood Risk and Water Scarcity of the Asian Delta Regions (2014)
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. While it is noted that the effect of a changing climate will exacerbate the extreme weather conditions affecting the prevalence of floods and water scarcity, many countries are already facing a cy... Read More about Balancing Flood Risk and Water Scarcity of the Asian Delta Regions.
The Costs of Flooding on Households (2014)
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. Costs associated with flooding can be categorised as tangible and intangible. The categorisation of the costs of flooding depends on factors, such as the ease of monetising the impact, when the im... Read More about The Costs of Flooding on Households.
Modelling green roof retrofit in the Melbourne Central Business District (2014)
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With the increasing densification in urban settlements the economic and social disruption caused by pluvial flooding events globally is significant and growing. Furthermore these problems are compounded where many cities are located in areas where cl... Read More about Modelling green roof retrofit in the Melbourne Central Business District.
The role of flood memory in the impact of repeat flooding on mental health (2014)
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A highly important but under researched impact of flood events is the long term psychological effect of the distress and trauma caused by damage and losses associated with repeated flooding of communities. As a part of the recovery process responders... Read More about The role of flood memory in the impact of repeat flooding on mental health.