Sustainable flood memory - trialling digital storytelling as a form of adaptive learning and knowledge exchange for resilience in at risk communities

研究/政策文献中众所周知，公众对洪水风险的认识与准备和行动之间存在很大差距。这个KE项目将探讨如何通过开发社区生成的数字故事（CDS）实践，将ESRC可持续洪水记忆项目的研究成果在社区和FRM利益相关者中实现和级联。ESRC知识交流项目将涉及最初的跨学科项目团队与FRM的国家领导机构EA之间的密切合作，以实现相互知识交流并增加影响力。ESRC可持续洪水记忆研究项目一直在探索可持续洪水记忆（SFM）的概念及其与社区复原力的基础知识和社会学习的联系。可持续森林管理被认为是一种以社区为重点的记忆工作方法，它是档案，将个人和集体的经验结合起来，涉及代际和代内的交流以及未来的战略。这种记忆包含了水的地方感，洪水的民间记忆和洪水遗产。最初的ESRC可持续洪水记忆项目涉及三个不同洪泛区组的半结构化访谈，这些洪泛区组具有不同的洪水经验，社会经济背景，并包括城市/农村对比。这就产生了各种专题领域供探讨，包括围绕备灾、应对战略和提高抗灾能力的办法的论述。该项目产生了一个关于洪水叙述和具体化的大型档案（60个扩展的录音和文字记录;照片;媒体剪辑等）。它将利用原始的研究经验及其资源，探索如何使用社区生成和拥有的数字故事（CDS; 3-7分钟的音频，附带图像）进行知识交流的方法可以告知如何共享洪水知识，以及如何使用它来建立社区的备灾能力。KE过程将允许重新探索社会学习/变革性学习的战略，这是社区备灾洪水风险规划的重要组成部分，无论是对社区本身还是对其他FRM利益相关者（如地方当局，农村社区委员会等）。该项目的设计最初将涉及与下游塞文流域的其他洪水风险社区分享/交流有关CDS的知识。环境局已提议将格洛斯特作为这项工作的背景，因为它已经准备在那里开展与新的洪水预警区有关的社区参与工作（两年期项目）。然后，ESRC KE项目将试验CDS，作为新集水区（与下游塞文集水区不同，在水文上相似或不同）的学习干预措施。这些知识交流的案例研究领域将被选定为环境署已经开展战略工作的流域（例如西南地区“快速反应流域”国家工作方案）。从共同工作和分享数字故事中获得的所有经验教训将通过在线研讨会在环境署内部全国范围内分享。因此，该项目将有助于确定新的积极参与式方法，以使负责提高社区抵御风险能力的环境局（和其他森林资源管理机构）参与进来。在区域、国家和国际范围内，KE项目将在政策、进程和实践方面产生重大影响，重点是提高适应能力和洪水后学习-这两个领域在洪水教育中都被忽视。这是重要的组织和社区的能力/能力建设所需的所有权的分布式方法，以剩余洪水风险管理，下放更多的责任，洪泛区团体/社区在处理剩余洪水风险。

It is well known in the research /policy literature that there is a large gap between public awareness of flood risk, and the move towards preparedness and action. This KE project will explore how the research outcomes of the ESRC Sustainable flood memory project can be materialised and cascaded in communities and to FRM stakeholders by developing community-generated digital storytelling (CDS) practice. This ESRC knowledge exchange project will involve close co-working between the original interdisciplinary project team, and the national lead in FRM, the EA, for mutual knowledge exchange and increased impact. The ESRC Sustainable Flood Memory research project has been exploring concept of sustainable flood memory (SFM) and its links to lay knowledges and social learning for community resilience. SFM has been conceived as an approach to memory work that is community focused, archival, integrating individual and collective experiences, involving inter- and intra-generational communication and strategies for its future. Such memory incorporates watery senses of place, folk memory of flooding and flood heritage. The original ESRC Sustainable Flood Memory project has involved semi-structured interviews in three different floodplain groups, with different prior flood experience, socio-economic setting and including an urban/rural contrast. This is generating diverse thematic areas for exploration including discourses around preparedness, coping strategies and approaches to increasing resilience. The project has generated a large archive of flood narrative and materialisation (60 extended audio recordings and transcripts; photographs; media cuttings etc.). It will draw on the original research experience and its resources to explore how an approach of using community-generated and owned digital stories (CDS; 3-7 minutes audio with accompanying images) for knowledge exchange can inform how lay flood knowledge is shared, and how it can be used to build preparedness in communities. The KE process will allow a fresh exploration of strategies for social learning/ transformative learning that are vital components of flood risk planning for community preparedness, both for communities themselves and for other FRM stakeholders (like Local Authorities, Rural Community Councils etc.). The project's design will initially involve sharing/exchanging knowledge around the CDS with other flood risk communities in the lower Severn catchment. The Environment Agency has proposed Gloucester as a setting for this work as it is already going to carry out community engagement work there (two year project) related to a new flood warning area. The ESRC KE project will then trial the CDS as interventions for learning in new catchments distinct from the lower Severn catchment that are either similar and different hydrologically. The case study areas for these knowledge exchanges will be selected to be catchments where the Environment Agency is already carrying out strategic work (e.g. national programme of work on 'rapid response catchments' in SW region). All learnings gained from co-working and sharing digital stories will be shared nationally within the Environment Agency through online workshops. The project will therefore contribute to defining new active participatory approaches to engagement by the Environment Agency (and other FRM agencies) responsible for increasing community resilience to risk. The impact of the KE project will be high in policy, process and practical terms, in regional, national and international contexts that focus on increasing adaptive capacity and post flood learning - both neglected areas in flood education. This is important in the organisational and community capacity/ capability building required for the ownership of distributed approaches to residual flood risk management that devolves increased responsibility to floodplain groups/communities in dealing with residual flood risk.