Dear Victor O. Oladokun and Burrell E. Montz,

Thank you very much again for your submission "Towards Measuring Resilience of Flood Prone Communities: A Conceptual Framework". Both referees acknowledged that you have taken up an interesting topic and provided in depth comments and specific remarks. However, the referees and I agree that reading the current manuscript leads to still open questions and in some parts clearer description or structure is needed. This indicate that the manuscripts need improvements before we can consider your manuscript for publication. Therefore, a major revision of the manuscript is necessary.
Both reviewers provided a detailed reports highlighting all the points you should consider in the revisions of the manuscript. According to your response, I am very positive about the new version of the manuscript and that you will take up their remarks.
The next steps are to prepare one response file (as .pdf) including (1) comments from referees/public, (2) author's response to each comment one by one, and (3) author's changes in manuscript. Regarding author's changes, a marked-up manuscript version (track changes in Word, latexdiff in LaTeX) converted into a *.pdf including the author's response must be submitted. Additionally, you have to upload the new version of the manuscript (see also please consider therefore the guidelines of the NHESS procedure again (http://www.natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences.net/peer_review/interactive_review_process.html#interactivepublicdiscussion).
Please also note that this decision does not necessarily imply acceptance of the manuscript in the journal NHESS, and it still will depend on your reply (and subsequent edits to your manuscript) to referees comments, as well as on the reviewer comments of the revised version.
I look forward to receiving the revised version of your manuscript. I and at least one other reviewer will review the revised version of your manuscript.

Regards, Margreth Keiler
NHESS Editor
Associate Professor of Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risk Research, University of Bern

Dear Victor O. Oladokun and Burrell E. Montz,

I apologize for the delay of the response to your manuscript. It was very time-consuming to find a reviewer for the second version of your manuscript because both previous reviewers were not available. The new review report indicates some minor points which I kindly ask you to address. After you have up-loaded the new version of the manuscript I will have a very quick review.
Regards, Margreth Keiler
NHESS Editor
Associate Professor of Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risk Research, University of Bern

Dear Victor O. Oladokun and Burrell E. Montz,

Thank you very much again for your submission of the new version of "Towards Measuring Resilience of Flood Prone Communities: A Conceptual Framework" and providing the response file. I read carefully the new version and I would like to suggest the following technical items, in most cases ‘minor’ (see attached file) which have to be addressed before publication. I mentioned this several times and ask you kindly to consider carefully the guidelines of NHESS (https://www.natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences.net/for_authors/manuscript_preparation.html). After you have up-loaded the new version of the manuscript I will have a very quick review. However, I am very positive that after these round the manuscript will be ready for publications.
Regards, Margreth Keiler
NHESS Editor
Associate Professor of Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risk Research, University of Bern

Dear Victor O. Oladokun and Burrell E. Montz,

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript NHESS-2018-217 can now be accepted for publication in our journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS). Please inform your co-authors of the editorial decision.

You will soon be contacted by the journal publication office for the preparation of the final version of your manuscript. Please respond promptly to the requests of the publication office, as this will condition the time of your publication, and read carefully any copy-editing recommendations that they make. Let me remind you that final publication of your paper on the journal web site is subject to the payment of the appropriate service charges. Also, do not forget that as an open-access journal you can freely distribute your paper once it is published.

I take this opportunity to thank you and your co-authors for having selected Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) for the publication of your scientific work. I look forward to receiving further contributions to our journal from you and your co-authors.

Sincerely,

Margreth Keiler
NHESS Editor