Flood Risk and Social Justice is a response to the rising
significance of floods and flood-related disasters worldwide, as an
initiative to promote a socially just approach to the problems of
flood risk. It integrates the human-social and the technological
components to provide a holistic view. This book treats flooding as
a multi-dimensional human and natural world tragedy that must be
accommodated using all the social and technological means that can
be mobilised before, during and after the flooding event. It covers
socially just flood risk mitigation practices which necessitate a
wide range of multidisciplinary approaches, starting from social
and wider environmental needs, including feedback cycles between
human needs and technological means. Flood Risk and Social Justice
looks at how to judge whether a risk is acceptable or not by
addressing an understanding of social and phenomenological
considerations rather than simple calculations of probabilities
multiplied by unwanted outcomes and their balancing between costs
and benefits. It is argued that the present 'flood management'
practice should be largely replaced by the social justice approach
where particular attention is given to deciding what is the right
thing to do within a much wider context. Thus it insists upon the
validity of modes of human understanding which cannot be addressed
within the limited context of modern science. Flood Risk and Social
Justice is written to support a wide range of audiences and seeks
to improve the dialogue between researchers and practitioners from
different disciplines (including post-graduate engineering,
environmental and social science students, industry practitioners,
academics, planners, environmental advocacy groups and
environmental law professionals) who have a strong interest in a
new kind of social justice work that can act as a continuous
counter-balance to the various mechanisms that unceasingly give
rise to profound injustices. More information about this book can
be found in this article written for the WaterWiki by the author:
http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/FloodRiskandSocialJustice
Authors: Zoran Vojinovic is Associate Professor at the UNESCO-IHE
Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands, with almost
20 years of consulting and research experience in various aspects
of water industry in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Europe,
Central/South America and the Caribbean. Michael B. Abbott is
Emeritus Professor at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education,
Delft, the Netherlands, and a Director of the European Institute
for Industrial Leadership in Brussels. He founded and developed the
disciplines of Computational Hydraulics and Hydroinformatics and
co-founded, the Journal of Hydroinformatics with Professor Roger
Falconer.
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