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How can the UK build flood resilience in a changing climate?
While Australia and the USA are battling extreme heat and wild fires other parts of the world are inundated by rain and battling severe flooding, including communities in the United Kingdom. What needs to happen at the global scale and what can be done closer to home to build resilience against floods in a changing climate?
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November,
2019
November,
2019
Inclusive transboundary governance at Asia-Pacific Urban Forum
This blog captures the key recommendations for the United Nations Seventh Asia-Pacific Urban Forum (APUF-7) from the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance’s session on the importance of transboundary action and inclusive governance in building urban flood resilience.
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October,
2019
October,
2019
Local knowledge in flood risk management: are we only paying it lip service?
Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine any ‘serious’ conversation on disaster risk reduction (DRR) that doesn’t emphasise the importance of local communities, their participation and their local knowledge. Global policies, including the Sendai Framework and Paris Agreement, clearly point out that local knowledge has a role to play in reducing risks and adapting to change. But how is this global rhetoric translated into practical approaches on the ground?
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October,
2019
October,
2019
What we’ve learnt from measuring flood resilience
A major challenge in understanding community flood resilience is the lack of an empirically validated measure of it. To plug this gap the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance (ZFRA) developed the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC). In the first phase of the Alliance we applied the FRMC tool in 118 communities in nine different countries. This is what we learnt from it.
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October,
2019
October,
2019
NDCs: an opportunity to prioritise flood resilience in national plans
To increase efforts to respond to increasing risk it is vital to ensure that flood resilience building is central to national governments efforts to tackle the climate crisis. The UNFCCC mandated five year action plans that document national commitments to climate action the aptly named Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) are a great opportunity to do this.
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October,
2019
October,
2019
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Carrying out research during lockdown: how to do remote surveys in rural communities
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High unemployment and Coronavirus hit flood and landslide preparations in Bangladesh
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