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Competing Paradigms of Flood Management in the Scottish/English Borderlands (2016)
Journal Article
Cook, B., Forrester, J., Bracken, L., Spray, C., & Oughton, E. (2016). Competing Paradigms of Flood Management in the Scottish/English Borderlands. Disaster Prevention and Management, 25(3), 314-328. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm-01-2016-0010

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how flood management practitioners rationalise the emergence of sustainable flood management. Key to this analysis are differences rooted in assumptions over what flood management is and should do. De... Read More about Competing Paradigms of Flood Management in the Scottish/English Borderlands.

Flood risk management, an approach to managing cross-border hazards (2016)
Journal Article
Bracken, L., Oughton, E., Donaldson, A., Cook, B., Forrester, J., Spray, C., …Bisset, N. (2016). Flood risk management, an approach to managing cross-border hazards. Natural Hazards, 82(Supplement 2), 217-240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2284-2

River flooding is a serious hazard in the UK with interest driven by recent widespread events. This paper reviews different approaches to flood risk management and the borders (physical, conceptual and organisational) that are involved. The paper sho... Read More about Flood risk management, an approach to managing cross-border hazards.