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Brief communication: Inclusiveness in designing an early warning system for flood resilience
Tahmina Yasmin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Kieran Khamis
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Anthony Ross
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College
London, London, UK
Subir Sen
Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Indian
Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Anita Sharma
People's Science Institute, Dehradun, India
Debashish Sen
People's Science Institute, Dehradun, India
Sumit Sen
Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Indian
Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Wouter Buytaert
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College
London, London, UK
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Short summary
Floods continue to be a wicked problem that require developing early warning systems with plausible assumptions of risk behaviour, with more targeted conversations with the community at risk. Through this paper we advocate the use of a SMART approach to encourage bottom-up initiatives to develop inclusive and purposeful early warning systems that benefit the community at risk by engaging them at every step of the way along with including other stakeholders at multiple scales of operations.
Floods continue to be a wicked problem that require developing early warning systems with...
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