To be effective, flood insurance appears to require a partnership between the insurers and government: interdependence rather than independence. Relations between government and the insurance industry appear to lie on a continuum from the quot;parasiticquot; to the quot;symbioticquot;. Changing...

Insurance against natural perils such as flooding can be considered a significant element in coastal management. It can offer not only much-needed support to accelerate economic and social recovery following a disaster (coastal resilience) but also contribute to impact limitation by using...

In this paper, the authors' theorizing shifts away from the catalytic role of the flood itself - or other crises - towards a deeper understanding of the relationship between change and stability, taking the example of UK flood insurance and the agreements - and the implicit policy approaches -...

This paper describes the options appraisal undertaken in the UK within the major TE2100 project to investigate the future of protecting London from flooding from the sea. An economic analysis, within a Benefit-Cost framework complemented by Multi-Criteria Analysis, shows that improving the...

ch. 1. Introduction : the purpose and contents of this manual -- ch. 2. Using appraisals to make better choices -- ch. 3. Flood risk management benefits : theory and practice -- ch. 4. Flood damage to residential properties and related social impacts -- ch. 5. Flood damage to non-residential...

Purpose – The Foresight Future Flooding (FFF) project researched flood risk in the UK to the year 2100 for central government, using scenarios and a national risk assessment model backed by qualitative analysis from panels of some 45 senior scientists. The purpose of this paper is to assess...

The distributional effects of investment for the reduction of flood risk are explored, with the UK as an example. Using three case studies, we initially investigate the 'gainers' and the 'losers' from three contrasting engineering-oriented flood alleviation and land drainage schemes, the results...