Sustainable flood memories, lay knowledges and the development of community resilience to future flood risk

McEwen, Lindsey; Garde-Hansen, Joanne; Holmes, Andrew

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20160709002

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“…made the key argument that there is no such thing as natural disaster. His work on flooding(2003) has long called for deeper historical perspectives to address the complex socio-natural production of vulnerability and risk McEwen et al (2016). propose the conceptual framing of "sustainable flood memory" in the context of devolving responsibilities for flood risk management to local communities in order to reflect on the ways that shared community knowledges can historically inform a practical approach.…”

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Rivers have memory: The (im)possibility of floods and histories of urban de‐and‐ reconstruction in the Andean‐Amazonian foothills

Lyons

2018

City & Society

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Rivers have memory: The (im)possibility of floods and histories of urban de‐and‐ reconstruction in the Andean‐Amazonian foothills

Lyons

2018

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“…Instead, much of what is in place now is reliant on voluntary actions [30,31]. Secondly, responsibility for action (including on climate change) has been devolved to the local level with "the need to enhance risk ownership by communities" ( [32], p. 1). The resulting implications are that the agenda capitalizes on local expertise and knowledge with a focus on building community resilience to nexus shocks.…”

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“…The Department for International Development's (DfID) 2011 Resilience Framework raises important questions to consider whenever resilience is being used [31,32,35,36], such as resilience 'to what' (for example, to what kinds of threat? What types of shock or stress?…”

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Decision-Making and Building Resilience to Nexus Shocks Locally: Exploring Flooding and Heatwaves in the UK

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Brooks

2017

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There has been a policy shift towards localism in the UK driving responses and decision-making processes to respond to the impacts of climate change. This shift capitalizes on local expertise and knowledge, empowering communities to take ownership of response strategies, with an increased focus on building resilience to nexus shocks. This comes at a time when the ability of local authorities to lead responses to nexus shocks is decreasing due to lack of capacity, funding and a statutory requirement to better respond to the impacts of climate change. We examine local resilience to nexus shocks and climate impacts as a complex process of collaboration, communication, adaptation, learning from past events and preparing for future shocks. Drawing on examples of resilience to extreme weather events in the UK, this review paper assesses: (1) local responses to nexus shocks in the UK; (2) how and what evidence is used to inform decision-making in response to nexus shocks; and (3) how stakeholders increase local resilience to nexus shocks when faced with gaps in knowledge. We outline possible ways to extrapolate these insights beyond the UK context.

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“…Elsewhere, we have written in depth about our concept of ‘sustainable flood memory’ (see McEwen et al, 2012). This is conceived as an approach to memory work that is community-focused, archival, integrating individual/personal and collective/community experience, involving inter-(vertical) and intra-(horizontal) generational communication, with concern for the future.…”

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Sustainable flood memory: Remembering as resilience

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This article proposes the concept of sustainable flood memory as a critical and agentic form of social and cultural remembering of learning to live with floods. Drawing upon research findings that use the 2007 floods in the South West of England as a case study, we explore and analyse the media representations of flooding, the role of community and communicative memory of past floods for fostering resilience, and map emotional and affective responses to floods. To approach flooding in this way is critical to understanding how communities engage in memory practices (remembering and strategically forgetting) in order to cope with environmental changes. Moreover, the article embraces a research design and strategy in which ‘memory studies’ is brought into a conversation not only with geography (mental maps), social sciences and flood risk management policy but also with stakeholders and communities who collect, archive and remember flood histories in their respective regions.

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Sustainable flood memories, lay knowledges and the development of community resilience to future flood risk

Cited by 26 publications

References 9 publications

Rivers have memory: The (im)possibility of floods and histories of urban de‐and‐ reconstruction in the Andean‐Amazonian foothills

Rivers have memory: The (im)possibility of floods and histories of urban de‐and‐ reconstruction in the Andean‐Amazonian foothills

Decision-Making and Building Resilience to Nexus Shocks Locally: Exploring Flooding and Heatwaves in the UK

Sustainable flood memory: Remembering as resilience

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