Transcript Duncan_Russell_presentation

SW RFCC Flooding
Workshop – Social Science
Research and Flooding
Dr Duncan Russel, College of Social Sciences and
International Studies
[email protected]
02 July 2014
Overview
• Show case some social science flood research
• What social scientists at Exeter University offer to understanding flooding
and flood risk
UK regional floods governance
(David Benson, Politics)
• Research investigates UK approaches to flood
governance since the 2010 legislation
• Emphasis on examining how local actors ‘collaborate’
with government agencies in funding decisions
• National survey of RFCCs
• Case studies: the South West and Anglian (Central)
• Interviews with stakeholders
• Also, comparison with practice in The Netherlands
• Contact email: [email protected]
Flooding and the River, Barle Catchment (Stewart
Barra and Ewan Woodley, Geography)
• Emphasis on co-producing ‘flood knowledges’ in a
catchment based approach
• Flooding over Christmas 2012 in the Barle catchment,
Exmoor
• Workshop of experts, stakeholders and communities
considered what could be done in the future to make
the catchment more resilient
• More rounded evidence base with community
considerations incorporated
• Contact email: [email protected]
The 2013/14 Winter Floods and Policy Change (Catherine
Butler, Neil Adger, Saffron O’Neill and Lousia Evens,
Geography)
• How lay public, interest groups and policy stakeholders derive a
solution to flooding following the winter crisis, with empirical work
in Somerset.
•
Multiple methods, including quantitative household repeat surveys of
500 flooded and unflooded households and qualitative visual methods
over the incoming year.
• Contact email: [email protected]
Land Use Research @ the Centre of Rural Policy
Research (Michael Winter, Matt Lobley and Robert Fish)
A variety of inter-disciplinary research projects with links
to flood management
• Behaviour of land managers and farmers
• Catchment management
• Participatory decision making
• Ecosystem Services (UK NEA AND NEAFO)
• Governance of PES schemes.
• Contact email: [email protected]
Climate change Adaptation and the Governance of Flood
Risk, (Duncan Russel and Roos Den-Uyl, Politics)
• Part of a large EU wide BASE project on adaptation
• Identification of adaptation pathways with associated
costs and benefits
• Enhancing the governance of adaptation in local
contexts
• Two South West case studies: coastal adaptation on
the Dawlish Coastline, and the Adaptation of
ecosystem services on Dartmoor
Contact: [email protected]
In summary – what social science has to offer
Social scientists Exeter can provide insights on ‘what’ how and why questions
through:
• Understanding behaviour in relation to land management, flooding and
flood risk
• Strategies to share knowledge and develop plans with local communities
• Insights into improving flood risk governance
• Identification of the social and policy challenges of climate change
adaptation
• And much, much more…
• In the age of squeezed public finances find solutions that work from social
and economic are as important as ever
• Partnerships and letters of support for ESRC, ERC and inter-disciplinary
UKRC grants
Student Opportunities
• Work placements
• Masters projects
• MPA (politics), MSc in Sustainable Development (Geography)