Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/41756
Title: Design with floods: from defence against a ‘Natural’ threat to adaptation to a human-natural process
Authors: Hobeica, L. 
Santos, P. 
Keywords: Food adaptation; Riverine urban projects; Spatial design; Urban regeneration
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: WIT Press
Serial title, monograph or event: International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Abstract: Recognizing that traditional flood management interventions focus on defence, attempting to eliminate contingencies in the urban relationship with rivers, an emergent perspective, spearheaded by spatial design, seeks to deal with floods through a more holistic framework. In contrast to the prevalent ‘design against floods’ approach that targets either the hazard or the exposure components of flood risk, ‘design with floods’ focuses as well on the assets at stake (including the built envelopes of exposed people and activities, usually covered under the term vulnerability), duly acknowledging the intertwining of natural and human processes. Using a multiple case study comprising three European flood-prone urban projects, we explore potentials of spatial design as an adaptation tool that goes beyond flood protection to foster wider societal gains. Our analyses have so far suggested that ‘design with floods’ requires a positive stance through which problem-solving and sense-making approaches are merged to provide both safety and urbanity (enriched urban realm and experience), without eliminating floods per se, accepted as a complex hybrid process.
Description: This paper is part of the "Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Flood Risk Management and Response" (FRIAR 2016)
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/41756
ISSN: 2041-9031
2041-904X
DOI: 10.2495/SAFE-V6-N3-616-626
10.2495/SAFE-V6-N3-616-626
Rights: openAccess
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