Flood resilience: Consolidating knowledge between and within critical infrastructure sectors
This report is a summary of a more detailed scoping study, which has been carried out to review current practice in flood resilience and make recommendations for further work in delivering the Resilience Shift needed by global society. Whilst focussing on the UK context, the consortium’s international experience in flood resilience engineering, international research and teaching collaborations is reflected in the key findings.
The report investigates integrated system thinking, dynamic performance based design and education to establish a baseline of current state-of-the-art resilience and risk management concepts with respect to managing floods.
Desk based literature reviews and engagement with key stakeholders, focused on the following three themes from the Resilience Shift programme:
- Integrated systems approaches as context for major engineering projects (Sheffield)
- Dynamic performance based design approaches for resilience (Warwick).
- Embedding systems-thinking and resilience into engineering education (Brunel & ICE Blue)
The purpose of this is to review the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) of resilience and risk management concepts and methodologies in research, practice and education and investigate how these have evolved in order to establish a baseline upon which to build improved processes and methods that enhance the SOTA and best practice.