Flood Hazards Briefing Note

Understanding Community Resilience to Flood Hazards – findings from the emBRACE Project.

Households and communities at risk are becoming an integral part of flood risk- management activities, through the authorities’ assignation to them of increasing responsibility to adapt to the negative effects of flood events. At the same time, many communities have only limited influence in the actual decision-making processes in flood management. This participation gap needs to be addressed all the more as many citizens,particularly the multiply affected, are highly motivated to participate in flood management.

Communities require a diverse range of human, socio-political, physical, financial and place-based resources to build resilience. Such resources can be drawn into the community via active community members who had the ability to bridge across a wide range of community groups and develop strong links with government agencies. Bridging and linking are key terms used in social network analysis and refer to associations that are formed across networks of a different nature, belief or organisational sector (e.g. beyond the close knit circle of family, friends and neighbours, which constitute bonded associations between like-minded people). However, bonded associations are also a very important source of social support, especially in terms of emotional support.

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The emBRACE Consortium 2015. EU Project emBRACE: Briefing Note 2. Understanding Community Resilience to Flood Hazards – findings from the emBRACE Project

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