Flood Risk Change. A Complexity Perspective

Table of Contents

1. Key drivers of flood risk change2. Disentangling drivers of change3. Rivers and floodplains as complex adaptive systems?4. Modelling spatio-temporal dynamics of flood risk change 5. Confronting complexity in flood risk management

Authors

Andreas Paul Zischg University of Bern, Switzerland. Andreas Paul Zischg is a geographer by training and has worked for many years in flood risk research and flood risk management. He was a consultant for public authorities responsible for water resources management, flood risk management, land use planning, and environmental protection and has built experience in adapting disciplinary government practices to the complex challenges of our times, e.g. by developing transdisciplinary and participative planning processes, adaptive management approaches, and by introducing participatory modelling framework in decision making processes. In these years, he acknowledged the urgent need for methods that enable us to consider, confront, and tackle the complexity inherent in solving current problems. Currently, he is a senior scientist at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research focuses on the development of coupled component modelling frameworks for analysing and modelling complex processes and changes that are shaping flood risks in the Anthropocene.