Nature Based Solutions – A key jigsaw piece for catchment resilience?
Nature Based Solutions – what are they and what can they offer? Our half day workshop was timely to bring the diverse mix of professionals together
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Media Flood Stories: Can they offer a way forward?
Post severe local floods in local communities a media focus will occur. But can we influence how that story is told?
What have we learned in the last ten years in planning and implementing flood resilience measures?
What have we learnt – this is only 10 years – more to apply and learn??
Deconstructing Flood Insurance
The role of Flood Insurance in a continuum of measures from mitigation, to adaptation and to residual risk is vital to understanding what mix of measures can work best in any local community
Demystifying Flood Models
This interactive workshop stepped through the use of flood models and how they assist in building flood risk reduction for local communities
Package of events looking at some steps to deal with Flood Risk
Time for a deep dive into some of the elements that allow us to better deal with flood risk
Resilience in Action: Brisbane’s Flood Resilient Homes Program
The BCC Flood Resilient Homes Program is the first topic on our LiveStream series – check out the engaging presenation
An author’s insight – Rising from the Flood:Moving Grantham
Future threats from naturla perils will mean not all settlements can stay where they are now. What needs to happen to enable and empower a community to want to relocate. Key lessons from the Grantham resettlement via Jamie Simmonds recently published book – provide invaluable insights on what can make it happen.
What is in the Strategic Floodplain Management Plan for the Brisbane River, our communities and us, as professionals?
Since the Floods of January 2011, there has been an extended effort to initiate, undertake and finalize a Strategic Floodplain Management Plan for the Brisbane River floodplain and catchments. In March 2019, the SFMP was launched and over the last 5 years the Flood CoP network has had a long interest on what it might entail and what it means for professional working in sectors that overlap with the actions arising out of the Plan.