Innovation in urban flood risk management research

Abstract

This Introduction presents the collection of chapters in this Handbook - chapters that emphasize urban flood management on city, neighbourhood, local and property scales. The chapters propose that the goal of risk management, to minimize the risk to populations, can be enhanced through better understanding of the impacts on people and their risk behaviours. Such understanding can be developed through collaboration involving communities and other urban stakeholders at all stages and in multiple ways. Furthermore, they indicate the immense variety of research beginning to evaluate the effect of involving wider stakeholders and communities in designing and implementing mitigation, preparedness and emergency actions towards more informed and socially connected flood risk management.