Tom Coulthard Professor of Physical Geography, University of Hull, UK.
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ESRC workshop: Sub-Contracting Risk: Neoliberal Policy
Agendas and the Changing Nature of Flood Risk Management:
On the September 16th 2010, a conference on Neoliberalisation and the changing nature of flood risk was held at the University of Hull
Over 40 people attended and the workshop featured presentations of work on English flood risk management, including the Yorkshire floods of 2007, involving the team from Hull and a team from Lancaster Environment Centre who have been working on the 2007 Hull floods. There was also a plenary sessions from Ben Wisner, an international expert of risk and natural hazards.
A list of the speakers and links to their presentations (in .pdf format) are provided below.
Graham Haughton, Greg Bankoff and Tom Coulthard, (University of Hull) The neoliberalisation of flood risk management
Clare Twigger-Ross (Lancaster Universit.y/Collingwood Environmental Planning) The Recovery Gap: Learning Lessons from the 2007 Hull Flood.
Stewart Williams, (Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania). Learning from Disasters Down-under? A comment on the constitution of new subjects and spaces in the management of bushfire and flood in Australia
Ben Wisner. Believing is Seeing: Reflections on Cross Cultural Understandings of Risk and the Role of Local Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction.
Liza Griffin, (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster) Making Communities Responsible at times of Crisis: Communities, Sustainability & Flooding Governance in the UK
Donald Houston (University of St Andrews), Alan Werrity (University of Dundee). The implications of climate change on patterns of surface water flood risk and environmental justice
Phil O'Keefe and Geoff O'Brien (Northumbria University)
Resilience, governance and risk: Subversive thoughts on disaster research
Alexia Rogers-Wright (University of Hull) Community approaches to flood risk management in Hull and East Yorkshire
Carl Lewis (University of Hull) Employers and flood risk in the Humber
Karen Potter (Liverpool University) Floodplain Restoration - From Policy Rhetoric to Mainstream Practice?
On the September 16th 2010, a conference on Neoliberalisation and the changing nature of flood risk was held at the University of Hull
Over 40 people attended and the workshop featured presentations of work on English flood risk management, including the Yorkshire floods of 2007, involving the team from Hull and a team from Lancaster Environment Centre who have been working on the 2007 Hull floods. There was also a plenary sessions from Ben Wisner, an international expert of risk and natural hazards.
A list of the speakers and links to their presentations (in .pdf format) are provided below.
Graham Haughton, Greg Bankoff and Tom Coulthard, (University of Hull) The neoliberalisation of flood risk management
Clare Twigger-Ross (Lancaster Universit.y/Collingwood Environmental Planning) The Recovery Gap: Learning Lessons from the 2007 Hull Flood.
Stewart Williams, (Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania). Learning from Disasters Down-under? A comment on the constitution of new subjects and spaces in the management of bushfire and flood in Australia
Ben Wisner. Believing is Seeing: Reflections on Cross Cultural Understandings of Risk and the Role of Local Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction.
Liza Griffin, (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster) Making Communities Responsible at times of Crisis: Communities, Sustainability & Flooding Governance in the UK
Donald Houston (University of St Andrews), Alan Werrity (University of Dundee). The implications of climate change on patterns of surface water flood risk and environmental justice
Phil O'Keefe and Geoff O'Brien (Northumbria University)
Resilience, governance and risk: Subversive thoughts on disaster research
Alexia Rogers-Wright (University of Hull) Community approaches to flood risk management in Hull and East Yorkshire
Carl Lewis (University of Hull) Employers and flood risk in the Humber
Karen Potter (Liverpool University) Floodplain Restoration - From Policy Rhetoric to Mainstream Practice?