A House of Cards: The challenge of establishing societal resilience to flooding through multi-layered governance in England

Alexander, Meghan and Priest, Sally (2019) A House of Cards: The challenge of establishing societal resilience to flooding through multi-layered governance in England. In: Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events: A Governance Issue. Wiley, pp. 99-114. ISBN 9781119383543

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Abstract

Using English flood‐risk governance as an example, this chapter assesses the relationship between current governance and societal resilience to fluvial and surface water flooding, with a focus on spatial planning, flood defence and mitigation, emergency management, and flood insurance. Within the context of climate change and natural hazards, multi‐level governance is seen as a key characteristic for adaptation and resilience. Multi‐layered flood risk governance is displayed through clearly‐defined jurisdictional levels and hierarchical distributions of responsibilities. Recognizing this multi‐layered structure, the chapter examines the ways in which this appears to influence societal resilience to flooding. This research draws from extensive document analysis of historic and current policy and legislation between 1930 and September 2017. These findings were complemented by 61 semi‐structured interviews conducted between December 2013 and April 2015 with past and present flood‐risk professionals operating at different scales.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	15 Feb 2020 08:40
Last Modified:	22 Apr 2023 02:41
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74229
DOI:	10.1002/9781119383567

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