Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance
The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance is a multi-sectoral partnership finding practical ways to support communities in developed and developing countries to strengthen their resilience to flood risk. The Grantham Research Institute joined the Alliance in 2018, and has been contributing leading edge research to support flood resilience policy and decision-making globally and locally. We are currently working with partners to expand this approach to include additional climate-induced hazards.
Our work to date has focused on testing the Alliance’s Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities tool in collaboration with local authorities in Germany and the UK. Our results supported local level decision-making and were used to inform national policy. In addition, we collaborated with local and Alliance partners on a range of topics related to flood risk governance, including participatory decision-making for flood resilience, the triple dividend of resilience, flood risk mapping, insurance and the private sector, and loss and damage, resulting in high quality research and policy outputs.
LSE continues to contribute leading edge research and policy insights to support global advocacy and locally led climate adaptation across 15 countries.
Funding
The Alliance is funded by the Zurich Foundation and includes Zurich, Concern Worldwide, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Mercy Corps, Plan International, Practical Action, the International Institute for Applied Systems and Analysis (IIASA) and the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-International (ISET).
For further information please visit: https://floodresilience.net/
Grantham Research Institute outputs:
Research articles
- Multiple resilience dividends at the community level: A comparative study of disaster risk reduction interventions in different countries (April 2023)
- From managing risk to increasing resilience: a review on the development of urban flood resilience, its assessment and the implications for decision making (December 2022)
- Climate and disaster resilience measurement: Persistent gaps in multiple hazards, methods, and practicability (July 2022)
- Investigating flood resilience perceptions and supporting collective decision-making through fuzzy cognitive mapping (May 2022)
- Supporting urban adaptation to climate change: What role can resilience measurement tools play? (December 2021)
- The risk of corporate lock-in to future physical climate risks: the case of flood risk in England and Wales (November 2021)
- New build homes, flood resilience and environmental justice – current and future trends under climate change across England and Wales (November 2020)
- National laws for enhancing flood resilience in the context of climate change: potential and shortcomings (August 2020)
Policy reports
- Accounting for sustainable development co-benefits: insights from local experiences with climate resilience interventions (July 2023)
- The triple dividend of building climate resilience: taking stock, moving forward (November 2022)
- PERC Flood event review ‘Bernd’ (June 2022)
- Is national disaster legislation ready for climate change? (January 2021)
- Flood Risk Management in Germany (June 2020)
- Flood Risk Management in England (June 2020)
- Building Flood Resilience in a Changing Climate: Insights from the United States, England and Germany (June 2020)
- Nature-Based Flood Resilience: Reaping the Triple Dividend from Adaptation in: From
“‘green”’ to“‘blue finance”:’: Integrating the ocean into the global climate finance architecture (2019)
Consultation responses
- Submission to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s Call for Evidence on the International Development Strategy (2021)
- Written evidence submitted to the EFRA Committee Inquiry on Flooding (2021)
- Submission to the Environment Agency’s consultation on the Draft National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England (2019)
- Submission to Call for Evidence on Flooding and Coastal Erosion by Defra (2019)
Commentaries
- Flood resilience requires more than concrete walls (January 2022)
- Flash floods: a grim reminder that adaptation is as important as reducing emissions (July 2021)
- New homes in poorer areas of England and Wales face undue flood risk (April 2021)
- Promising steps towards creating a more flood-resilient England (August 2020)
- The role of national laws in managing flood risk and increasing future flood resilience (March 2020)
- Flood risk is rising and so must our resilience to it (February 2020)