Urban Design and Adapting to Flood Risk: The Role of Green Infrastructure

Lennon, Mick; Scott, Mark; O’Neill, Eoin

doi:10.1080/13574809.2014.944113

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“…From a policy point of view, it may be salient to target these individuals, for example, with information campaigns. This misalignment between reality and perception may be heightened by lower understanding of environmental functions in urban communities . Additionally, given the strong relationship found between geographical proximity and (hurricane) evacuation decisions, we would speculatively infer (in the absence of further supporting survey data) from the findings here that some respondents might underestimate the available time required for an emergency evacuation.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…The scale of potential costs being attributed to future flooding has driven a new concern for its management . Traditionally, flood management approaches concentrated on flood defense with the aim of reducing the probability of flooding; however, it is now recognized that structural solutions alone will not solve flooding problems . A new paradigm has emerged that is more focused on resilience rather than resistance and pays increasing attention to nonstructural measures ( inter alia risk assessment, flood warnings, awareness raising, household preparedness, land‐use planning, and emergency management).…”

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The Impact of Perceived Flood Exposure on Flood‐Risk Perception: The Role of Distance

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Natural hazards, such as major flood events, are occurring with increasing frequency and inflicting increasing levels of financial damages upon affected communities. The experience of such major flood events has brought about a significant change in attitudes to flood-risk management, with a shift away from built engineering solutions alone towards a more multifaceted approach. Europe's experience with damaging flood episodes provided the impetus for the introduction of the European Floods Directive, requiring the establishment of flood-risk management plans at the river-basin scale. The effectiveness of such plans, focusing on prevention, protection, and preparedness, is dependent on adequate flood awareness and preparedness, and this is related to perception of flood risk. This is an important factor in the design and assessment of flood-risk management. Whilst there is a modern body of literature exploring flood perception issues, there have been few examples that explore its spatial manifestations. Previous literature has examined perceived and real distance to a hazard source (such as a river, nuclear facility, landfill, or incinerator, etc.), whereas this article advances the literature by including an objectively assessed measure of distance to a perceived flood zone, using a cognitive mapping methodology. The article finds that distance to the perceived flood zone (perceived flood exposure) is a crucial factor in determining flood-risk perception, both the cognitive and affective components. Furthermore, we find an interesting phenomenon of misperception among respondents. The article concludes by discussing the implications for flood-risk management.

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The Impact of Perceived Flood Exposure on Flood‐Risk Perception: The Role of Distance

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“…The general realignment of flood-risk management policy away from a singular emphasis on the prevention of floods through engineered structural flood relief works towards one that is more holistic and incorporates softer approaches to reduce the impacts of flooding events has been well documented in the literature (Lennon et al, 2014). This shift has largely been driven by a growing recognition that 'hard' measures alone are no longer sufficient to adequately protect communities at risk of flooding.…”

Section: Introduction: From Flood-risk Prevention To Flood-risk Prepamentioning

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Is there really “nothing you can do”? Pathways to enhanced flood-risk preparedness

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“…Indeed, there are many opportunities for infrastructure renovation and necessary landscape improvements throughout urban areas: from the need to provide alternatives to reduce the load of obsolete drainage infrastructure to vacant lots that can be used to store water. Bearing in mind the ever exceeding costs of traditional infrastructure repair alongside expected climate change extreme projections, a wide range of literature argues that established methods are no longer affordable nor sustainable, such as [51][52][53]. As such, new alternatives, supportive of an integrated water management, should be considered not only as a necessary immediate investment, but, more importantly, as an investment in our future.…”

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Urban Floods and Climate Change Adaptation: The Potential of Public Space Design When Accommodating Natural Processes

Silva

Costa

2018

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Urban public space is extraordinarily adaptable under a pattern of relatively stable changes. However, when facing unprecedented and potentially extreme climatic changes, public spaces may not have the same adaptation capacity. In this context, planned adaptation gains strength against "business as usual". While public spaces are among the most vulnerable areas to climatic hazards, they entail relevant characteristics for adaptation efforts. As such, public space design can lead to effective adaptation undertakings, explicitly influencing urban design practices as we know them. Amongst its different intrinsic roles and benefits, such as being a civic common gathering place of social and economic exchanges, public space may have found an enhanced protagonism under the climate change adaptation perspective. In light of the conducted empirical analysis, which gathered existing examples of public spaces with flood adaptation purposes, specific public space potentialities for the application of flood adaptation measures are here identified and characterized. Overall, this research questions the specific social potentiality of public space adaptation in the processes of vulnerability tackling, namely considering the need of alternatives in current flood management practices. Through literature review and case study analysis, it is here argued that: people and communities can be perceived as more than susceptible targets and rather be professed as active agents in the process of managing urban vulnerability; that climate change literacy, through the design of a public space, may endorse an increased common need for action and the pursuit of suitable solutions; and that local know-how and locally-driven design can be considered as a service with added value for adaptation endeavors.

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Urban Design and Adapting to Flood Risk: The Role of Green Infrastructure

Cited by 83 publications

References 34 publications

The Impact of Perceived Flood Exposure on Flood‐Risk Perception: The Role of Distance

The Impact of Perceived Flood Exposure on Flood‐Risk Perception: The Role of Distance

Is there really “nothing you can do”? Pathways to enhanced flood-risk preparedness

Urban Floods and Climate Change Adaptation: The Potential of Public Space Design When Accommodating Natural Processes

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