NewApproaches to Flood Risk Management – Implications for Capacity-Building

ABSTRACT: New approaches to flood risk management will require new behaviours from a wide set of stakeholders and practitioners. Wide scale participation in planning and decision making can help achieve these new behaviours. There is a lack of practitioners with the skills to facilitate such participatory and integrated planning. An understanding of capacity building in relation to urban flood management is developed here. Little empirical research has been conducted on the effectiveness of capacity building in the skills required to deliver the meaningful participation and integrated planning called for in recent shifts in policy, as in the European Union Water Framework Directive.