Re-thinking, and re-connecting, communities with, and through, water issues. Situated (place-time), and therapeutic narratives.

该项目将对近年来在艺术、人文和相关主题方面进行的一系列工作进行审查，以了解英国及其他地区的社区如何受到洪水等问题的影响，以及如何应对这些问题，以及与水安全相关的问题。这项研究试图探索如何在这项工作中设想“社区”，思考社区和洪水及相关的水问题可以给其他社区方法带来什么洞察力，以及其他社区理论和方法如何反馈到关于水和其他环境问题的工作中。社区被视为复杂和有争议的群体，并不简单或容易地与地点和定居点的概念相对应。但这项研究的目的是探索物理位置、环境过程和洪水等危险因素如何对共享地理位置和社区的人口产生影响。英国发生了一系列重大洪灾(例如，博斯卡斯尔2004年；卡莱尔2005年；格洛斯特郡和赫尔2007年；坎布里亚2009年)，这些洪灾显然对受影响的社区产生了戏剧性和长期的影响，包括经济影响、健康和福祉影响，以及社区如何看待自己以及如何融入到景观和更广泛的社会中。政府对洪灾风险管理规划的挑战的回应，如PIT审查(2008年)所述，非常注重社区备灾和发展社区复原力，作为制定洪灾风险应对措施的更广泛措施的一部分。气候变化的情景，包括可能的海平面上升和更极端的降雨事件，再加上建造新住房的压力，意味着社区如何在洪水(和其他水问题)的风险下生活的问题将仍然是政治和学术议程上的重要问题。除洪灾外，社区一级的水安全问题还有其他重要关切，包括干旱(如2011年英格兰东部)，以及如何有效管理集水区以获得生物多样性和生态系统服务等资产。所有这些处理社区和水问题的方法都引发了一系列问题，比如什么是社区，社区如何“发挥作用”(或不发挥作用)，以及洪水等地区性问题在多大程度上在当地人口中创造了社区，而在其他意义上，当地人口可能无法成为一个有凝聚力的社区。通过水问题思考社区，提出了关于社区内部和外部如何联系的问题(例如，与共享河流集水区的其他社区)。研究将发展“情景叙事”的想法：社区如何在景观中发展其集体环境的过去、现在和未来的故事。这些变化可以是关于社区与水安全等环境问题的关系，也可以是关于社区本身如何运作以及如何与其他社区联系的变化。这类工作可以得到当地机构和机构(例如当地博物馆)的支持，也可以通过社交媒体网络得到支持。研究还将开发“治疗叙事”的想法：-基于艺术和人文的研究和实践(例如创意写作、摄影、口述历史)如何帮助社区不仅接受具有挑战性的水问题和经历，如洪水，而且开始对社区内部和与邻近社区的关系发展新的见解和同理心。

This project will conduct a review of a range of work which has taken place in recent years in arts and humanities and related subjects into how communities in the UK, and beyond, are affected by, and cope with, issues such as flooding and related questions of water security. The research seeks to explore how "community" has been envisaged in that work, and what insights thinking about communities and flooding and related water issues can bring to other approaches to communities, and how other theories and approaches to community can feed back into work on water and other environmental issues. Communities are seen as complex and contested formations, which do not simply or easily correspond to notions of place and settlement. But the research aims to explore how physical location, and environmental processes and hazards such as floods can have impacts on populations who share locations and neighbourhoods. What lessons can be leanrt from this?There have been a series of very significant floods in the UK (e.g. Boscastle 2004; Carlisle 2005; Gloucestershire and Hull 2007; Cumbria 2009 ) which have clearly had dramatic and long lasting impacts on affected communities which include economic impacts, health and well being impacts, and also how the community sees itself and how it is embedded in the landscape and in wider society. The government response to the challenge of planning for flood risk management, as in the Pitt Review (2008), focuses very much on community preparedness, and developing community resilience as part of a wider range of measures in developing flood risk response. Climate change scenarios, which include possible sea level rise and more extreme rainfall events, coupled with pressure to build new homes, means that questions of how communities live with the risk of flooding (and other water issues) will remain high on the political and academic agenda. Alongside flooding there are also other important concerns about water security issues at the community level which include drought (as in Eastern England 2011) and how water catchment areas are effectively managed for assets such as biodiversity and ecosystem services. All these approaches to communities and water issues raise a host of questions about what communities are, how they 'work' (or don't work), the extent to which a locational issue such as flooding creates community in a local population who, in other senses, might not function as a cohesive community. Thinking about community through water issues asks questions about how they are connected internally and externally (e.g. to other communities which share a river catchment area).The research will develop ideas of "situated narratives": how communities develop stories of their collective environmental past, present and future in landscape. These changes can be about community relations with environmental issues such as water security and also about changes in how the community itself works and how it is connected to other communities. This kind of work can be supported by local agencies and institutions (e.g. local museums) and also through social media networks.The research will also develop ideas of "therapeutic narratives": - how arts and humanities based research and practice (e.g. creative writing, photography, oral history) can help communities come to terms not only with challenging water issues and experiences, such as flooding, but also begin to develop new insights and empathies into relationships within their community and with neighbouring communities.