Climate and Flood Governance

Rio vista flood

Anna Serra-Llobet, Matt Kondolf and their co-authors have recently published a number of articles on managing flood risks, including:

Serra‐Llobet, A., Tourment, R., Montané, A., & Buffin‐Belanger, T. (2022). Managing residual flood risk behind levees: Comparing USA, France, and Quebec (Canada). Journal of Flood Risk Management15(2), e12785.

Serra-Llobet, A., Jähnig, S. C., Geist, J., Kondolf, G. M., Damm, C., Scholz, M., ... & Schmitt, R. (2022). Restoring rivers and floodplains for habitat and flood risk reduction: experiences in multi-benefit floodplain management from California and Germany. Frontiers in Environmental Science9, 778568.

Serra‐Llobet, A., Kondolf, G. M., Magdaleno, F., & Keenan‐Jones, D. (2022). Flood diversions and bypasses: Benefits and challenges. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water9(1), e1562.

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Stephen Collier and Savanah Cox recently published an article on climate change governance in three U.S. cities: New Orleans, New York and Greater Miami.  The paper investigates how insurance has become "increasingly central to the constitution of climate change as a public problem."  The article can be found at:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03085147.2021.1904621?casa_token=UDAQs7_BsF0AAAAA:H7Q1id_4RsezXgYjzIMuVYmEN1occx60bI5s7iZ2DQU6AjjWknPTPEnDfSjqM3vVFTI-oUI6trhp5A