ABSTRACT
CONHAZ was a EC FP7 project to review the state of the art in assessing the costs of respectively floods, droughts, avalanches and coastal storms. Developing cost assessment methodologies are inherently exercises in transcience: the purpose of the exercise being to help decision makers to be able to make ‘better’ decisions around flood risk management in the future. So, the guidelines had to be relevant and appropriate to the different decisions that have to be made. Therefore, the process of developing the guidelines was stakeholder led, an obvious stakeholder being the CIS Working Group on floods; other stakeholders including land use planners, environmental interests and the insurance industry. We began by holding workshops in which the two questions we asked of the stakeholders were:
– what do you want to know? – how do you want to know it?
