ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on increasing the knowledge and support the practice of incorporating flexibility into urban flood risk management systems, in order to facilitate adaptation in the context of climate change. Flexible adaptation measures enhance flood resilience. The adaptation planning processes that are often centred on single criteria has been guiding the adaptation research towards maximising efficiency in achieving the desired adaptation objectives, which are mostly economic. Mapping of relationships between adaptation measures and framing the rules for generating adaptation pathways has been possible due to an understanding of the characteristic features of the selected adaptation measures. A comprehensive understanding of adaption measures and relationships between them are prerequisites to deciding on measures, approaches, pathways to maximise the value of flexibility in adaptation planning and implementation. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
