Samuels, P.G. (2025) Looking back and looking forward (again) (Editorial). Journal of Flood Risk Management, 18 (1).
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For this editorial, journal colleagues suggested that I should reflect on my time with the Journal of Flood Risk Management, as my role as Editor in Chief of the Journal has now passed to Nigel Wright and David Proverbs. I will start over 20 years ago by recalling that, as project Coordinator, at the first project team meeting of the EU funded FLOODsite1 research consortium in 2004, I outlined my understanding that flood risk and its management is an entirely human problem. I wanted to emphasise to our team of European researchers who were drawn from many disciplines and backgrounds that the project was not to focus on my own area of expertise (computational modelling) but was to be fully interdisciplinary. I argued that flooding of land is a natural process whether it arises from rainfall, rivers or the sea. Risk, however, is human concept and flood risk arises when the natural process of inundation conflict with people, possessions and property in the path of water. Put simply, ‘no people then no risk!’
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Floods > General |
| Divisions: | Floods |
| Depositing User: | Helen Stevenson |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Apr 2025 08:31 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2025 08:31 |
| URI: | http://eprints.hrwallingford.com/id/eprint/1679 |
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