The ‘Flood Resilience Rose’: A management tool to promote transformation towards flood resilience

Karrasch, Leena ORCIDiD
Restemeyer, Britta
Klenke, Thomas

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12726
Persistent URL: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/9562
Karrasch, Leena; Restemeyer, Britta; Klenke, Thomas, 2021: The ‘Flood Resilience Rose’: A management tool to promote transformation towards flood resilience. In: Journal of Flood Risk Management, 14, 3, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12726. 
 
Restemeyer, Britta; 1 COAST – Centre for Environment and Sustainability Research, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg Oldenburg Germany
Klenke, Thomas; 1 COAST – Centre for Environment and Sustainability Research, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg Oldenburg Germany

Abstract

Coping with the growing impacts of flooding in EU countries, a paradigm shift in flood management can be observed, moving from safety‐based towards risk‐based approaches and holistic perspectives. Flood resilience is a common denominator of most of the approaches. In this article, we present the ‘Flood Resilience Rose’ (FRR), a management tool to promote harmonised action towards flood resilience in European regions and beyond. The FRR is a result of a two‐step process. First, based on scientific concepts as well as analysis of relevant policy documents, we identified three ‘levels of operation’. The first level refers to the EU Floods Directive and an extended multi‐layer safety approach, comprising the four different layers of protection, prevention, preparedness and recovery, and related measures to be taken. This level is not independent but depends both on the institutional (second level) and the wider (third level) context. Second, we used surveys, semi‐structured interviews and group discussions during workshops with experts from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to validate the definitions and the FRR's practical relevance. The presented FRR is thus the result of rigorous theoretical and practical consideration and provides a tool capable to strengthen flood risk management practice.