Financial schemes for resilient flood recovery

Abstract

Options for the increase of flood resilience during the recovery phase is, to a large extent, overlooked. The special issue Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery investigates how the implementation of financial schemes (government relief subsidies, insurance schemes, buy-outs, etc.) might increase flood resilience. Five papers address following questions: Shall government relief subsidies exist when there is flood insurance in place, and, if so, how might they both be coordinated? Where (or how) to decide about build back better incentives and where to go for planned relocation programs? What is the distributional equity of financial schemes for flood recovery, and has it been sufficiently treated? ARTICLE HISTORY

‘Do the resilient things.’ Residents' perspectives on responsibilities for flood risk adaptation in England

“…In this contribution, we focus specifically on individual adaptive actions of these three categories: technical, financial, and behavioural actions. Technical measures aim to increase the physical resilience of buildings like property‐level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) (Attems et al, 2019; Jüpner et al, 2020), measures for financial resilient recovery include approaches as insurance schemes (Slavíková et al, 2020), and individual and collective adaptive behaviour includes monitoring flood forecasts, storing emergency supplies, or joining community emergency plans (Kuhlicke et al, 2020).…”

Flood Recovery Outcomes and Disaster Assistance Barriers for Vulnerable Populations

“…The results can help guide the selection of social vulnerability indicators specific to flood recovery, addressing a current research need for social vulnerability indicators tailored to specific disaster phases (Rufat et al, 2015). Additionally, this review informs research on different financial schemes for flood recovery, particularly those considering social equity (e.g., Emrich et al, 2020;Slavíková et al, 2020). Other potential applications include emergency management, policy evaluation and analysis, project reporting, and advancing academic research.…”

Financial compensation and legal restrictions for using land for flood retention

“…Furthermore, land for the construction of necessary accompanying technical structures (inlet, outlet, levee) is needed. As allocation of retention measures can sometimes be met with reluctance in local communities (Glavan et al, 2020), suitable financial mechanisms (Slavíková et al, 2020) must be established to encourage cooperation of local stakeholders and private owners to avoid long-term mistrust (Raška et al, 2019) in order to ensure successful implementation of retention measures. It is therefore essential to take a look into the theoretical as well as practical considerations of financial compensation to land owners providing retention services as well as land-use restrictions (Slavíková et al, 2020).…”

“…As allocation of retention measures can sometimes be met with reluctance in local communities (Glavan et al, 2020), suitable financial mechanisms (Slavíková et al, 2020) must be established to encourage cooperation of local stakeholders and private owners to avoid long-term mistrust (Raška et al, 2019) in order to ensure successful implementation of retention measures. It is therefore essential to take a look into the theoretical as well as practical considerations of financial compensation to land owners providing retention services as well as land-use restrictions (Slavíková et al, 2020). The notion of property is not a universal one but rather specific for every national and constitutional context -as discussed by Albrecht and Nikolić Popadić (Chapter 3 in this volume).…”