Integrated Measures for Flood Risk Management in Impacted Areas
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 6555
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Flooding is one of the major risks faced by people, infrastructure and the natural environment. Moreover, climate change is exacerbating this risk meaning we will see increased impacts in the future.
Managing flood risk is difficult for many reasons, including that there are: different sources of flooding (rivers, the sea, surface water, groundwater); different organisations controlling different parts of the problem; and different strategies required across different temporal and spatial scales.
The best responses to such a complex problem require integration across science, policy, governance and interventions. The overall aim of the special issue, therefore, is to expand the literature on successes, challenges, barriers, proposals and analysis of integrated flood risk management strategies, governance and interventions to increase the evidence base for future decision makers.
The scope of the issue is broad but submission should include consideration of the integration of different flood risk management approaches. These could include, but are not limited to:
- Innovative FRM policy or governance integration across different spatiotemporal scales
- Implementation, analysis or proposals for flood risk management strategies
- Modelling or analysis of flood risk
- Infrastructure interventions, such as flood walls/barriers, coastal defences, embankments etc.
- Catchment level interventions, such as land-use planning, nature-based solutions, natural flood management
- Improving drainage design/capacity or introducing sustainable urban drainage (SuDS)
- Reducing or slowing the flow of water in rivers or in urban areas
- Property level protection or resilience, changing housing resilience standards, use of demountable barriers
- Collaboration between stakeholders to share knowledge, finance or responsibility
- Risk avoidance, through planning approaches or relocation
- Providing information on flood risk
- Developing flood warning systems and evacuation procedures
- Improving societal resilience through plans to prepare and/or recover from flood events
This could be presented as analysis, case studies, discussion, modelling or any other structure that highlights the impact or potential of integrated flood risk management approaches or assesses the level of/capacity for integration.
Dr. Andrew Russell
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- governance
- integrated flood risk management
- policy
- coastal flooding
- surface water flooding
- river flooding
- groundwater flooding
