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Analysing and evaluating flood risk governance in England – Enhancing societal resilience through comprehensive and aligned flood risk governance arrangements

Year: 2016

Type: book

Abstract: This report is the third deliverable of the EU 7 th Framework Project STAR-FLOOD (www.starflood.eu).STAR-FLOOD focuses on flood risk governance.The project investigates strategies for dealing with flood risks in 18 vulnerable urban regions in six European countries: England (UK), Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Poland and Sweden.The project assesses Flood Risk Governance Arrangements from a combined public administration and legal perspective, with the aim to make European regions more resilient to flood risks.Work Package 1 provided an extended problem analysis related to Flood Risk Governance in Europe and Work Package 2 focused on how Flood Risk Governance in Europe can be researched.Work Package 3 forms the empirical core of the project, in which analysis, explanations and evaluations of each country, including three case studies, have been performed 1 .This report constitutes deliverable D3.3 and summarises the research conducted in England (UK) at the national and case study level of analysis; including the case studies of Kingston-upon-Hull (North East England), the Lower Thames (South East England) and the City of Leeds (North England).In contrast to other Partner countries, flood risk governance in England is characterised by its complexity and comprehensive approach to flood risk management.There are considerable strengths of this system in terms of enhancing societal resilience to flooding, resource efficiency and the legitimacy of flood risk governance.This report accompanies five other reports for each partner country (D3.2 to D3.7).Alongside D3.1, a report of workshops held in each country, these deliverables form the main input for the last two Work Packages of STAR-FLOOD; WP4 and WP5.Whereas WP4 focuses on a systematic comparison between the STAR-FLOOD consortium countries; WP5 identifies design principles for appropriate and resilient Flood Risk Governance.We trust that the current report is of interest for a broad readership with an interest in Flood Risk Management and governance.The content of this report may inspire researchers and professionals with an interest in social scientific and legal research into Flood Risk Management, Disaster Risk Reduction or climate change adaptation.

Source: ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University)