Flood risk management and ‘fairness’: aspirations and reality
Conference paper
Penning-Rowsell, E., Priest, S. and King, D. 2016. Flood risk management and ‘fairness’: aspirations and reality. FLOODrisk 2016 - 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management. Lyon, France 17 - 21 Oct 2016 EDP Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160724001
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | Flood risk management and ‘fairness’: aspirations and reality |
Authors | Penning-Rowsell, E., Priest, S. and King, D. |
Abstract | Flood risk management in United Kingdom has been going through a process of rapid change in the last decade or so, no doubt spurred on by a series of very serious floods since the year 2000. These changes affect flood defence and non-structural flood risk management measures alike, and involve a degree of devolution from central government to local communities and regional organisations, as central government seeks to shed responsibilities for policy implementation. This paper discusses three case studies concerning flood defence, property level protection, approaches to social justice. The results show a different pattern in each area, with flood defence moving somewhat towards a Rawlsian approach, but flood insurance and property level protection showing signs of both inefficiency and poor penetration, respectively, particularly with regard to low income residents, especially those in social housing. |
Research Group | Flood Hazard Research Centre |
Conference | FLOODrisk 2016 - 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management |
ISSN | 2267-1242 |
Publisher | EDP Sciences |
Publication dates | |
Online | 20 Oct 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 06 Feb 2017 |
Accepted | 01 Mar 2016 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Copyright Statement | © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Additional information | Paper published in: E3S Web Conf. Volume 7, 2016, 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016), Article Number 24001 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160724001 |
Language | English |
Book title | E3S Web of Conferences, Volume 7, 2016, 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016) |
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