Handbook of Flood Risk Management and Community Action

Professor Divine Kwaku Ahadzie is an experienced award-winning researcher in Construction and Human Settlement Development. He is the Head of the Centre for Settlements Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana with a demonstrated history of working in construction, housing and disaster risk reduction.

This handbook emphasizes the need for community action as part of an integrated flood risk management approach, highlighting case studies that have made positive impacts, resulting in resilience-enhancing actions which can improve global community understanding.

1. Handbook of flood risk management and community action: An international perspective. 2. Co-production of knowledge for flood risk management: Case study of multiple stakeholders at Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia. 3. Local knowledge's roles for nature-based solutions as flood risk M=management: Pangpang Bay, Indonesia. 4. Preserving heritage, historical artefacts and culture for social resilience and tourism amid flood disasters: A case study of Morten Village of Sungai Melaka, Malaysia. 5. Managing emergencies - failure and success: Lessons from a village in the Czech Republic. 6. Drivers, services gaps and improving disaster management for displaced people: A case study of prolonged displacement following the 2022 floods in Lismore, Australia. 7. Capturing the effectiveness of early warning and sustainable community-based early action interventions for disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh: An analysis from flood-prone areas. 8. Emergency animal-safe facilities assessment to enable livestock evacuation during disasters in Australia. 9. Home owner/occupant property flood protection: An appraisal of the options and opportunities used to mitigate and minimise impacts. 10. The prevention policy and experiences of flood resilience in Brazil. 11. Building resilience through community-based flood risk management: Pathway and reflections. 12. Flood insurance uptake in Nigeria; building resilience by promoting a culture of risk protection. 13. Community flood insurance in Ghana; individual and institutional diffusion of uptake. 14. Technology-mediated flood risk management tools: A review of smart and mobile applications. 15. River naturalization and load sediment detection sensor for community-based flood risk management in Indonesia. 16. Towards flood resilient supply chain systems: A facility location model for flood prone communities. 17. Conclusion and final remarks.