Flood Resilience of Private Properties examines the division and
balance of responsibilities between the public and the private when
discussing flood resilience of private properties. Flooding is an
expensive climate-related disaster and a threat to urban life.
Continuing development in flood-prone zones compound the risks.
Protecting all properties to the same standards is ever more
challenging. Research has focused on improved planning and adapting
publicly-owned infrastructure such as streets, evacuation routes,
and retention ponds. However, damages often happen on private land.
To realize a flood-resilient city, owners of privately-owned
residential houses also need to act. Measures such as mobile
barriers and backwater valves or avoiding vulnerable uses in
basements can make homes more flood-resilient. But private owners
may be unaware of flooding risks or may lack the means and
knowledge to act. Incentives may be insufficient, while fragmented
or unclear property rights and responsibilities entrench inertia.
The challenge is motivating homeowners to take steps. Political and
societal systems influence the action citizens are prepared to take
and what they expect their governments to do. The responsibility
for implementing such measures is shared between the public and the
private domain in different degrees in different countries. This
book will be of great interest to scholars of water law, property
rights, flood risk management and climate adaptation. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Water International.
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