The Summer After the Floods: a real-time examination of the social, economic and environmental dimensions of flood recovery and resilience.

2013/14年冬季英国洪水事件的规模、多样性、持续性和严重性在近代历史上是前所未有的。这提供了一个独特的机会，可以从企业、房主、当地社区和环境质量的角度实时研究促成或抑制快速有效洪水恢复的因素。因此，这项研究非常适合ESRC试点紧急机制资助计划。这项研究汇集了来自商业和管理研究，人文地理学和环境科学的多学科团队，以研究2013/14英国洪水。通过将三个不同的理论视角（即企业复原力，社会正义和水文特征）结合在一起，该项目旨在更全面，更细致地了解社区，企业和决策者如何从最近的洪水中恢复，并准备减少未来洪水事件的影响。该项目的核心研究设计是对2014年经历了重大洪水事件的英国四个不同地点进行比较性跨案例分析：伍斯特，贝辛斯托克，萨默塞特水平和斯泰内斯。选择这些地点是因为它们代表i）洪水类型（即地表水和地下水）的高度变化，ii）农村和城市地区，以及iii）洪水事件的不同水平。在以下方面缺乏比较证据：企业和社区如何从今后的洪灾中恢复和规划，政策应对措施如何影响恢复进程，以及洪灾恢复和备灾的社会、经济和环境层面之间的紧张关系和相互依存关系如何产生和解决。快速实地工作（即在接近恢复和未来规划阶段）将有可能收集关于恢复和备灾方法的影响的有力经验证据，特别是在努力实现企业复原力、社会正义和环境质量方面产生的紧张关系或协同作用。此外，该项目代表了一个难得的机会，实时研究洪水恢复，并评估政策干预的影响（有意和无意）到洪水和他们的互动与“自下而上”的业务和社区响应过程。特别是，有一个迫切需要反思的影响，新的政策范式的“自然洪水管理”，优先在城市地区的基本建设项目和农村地区的相对不干预。因此，该项目在以下方面具有独特性：实时而不是回顾性;在行动中捕捉恢复和备灾;多学科，并在学科内采用多种方法;比较而不是单一地点或洪水类型。为了实现我们的核心目标，告知企业，社区和政策应对洪水，我们将从项目一开始就直接与我们的目标非学术受益者合作，并将在整个研究期间纳入他们的反馈，要求和解决方案。将通过以下平台提供和访问项目结果：Twitter;项目微型网站和讨论区;公共简报（书面和视频）;播客;业务自助指南和非技术报告;互动利益攸关方研讨会;与行业和议会信托合作在议会大厦组织的传播活动，以及在伯明翰大学布鲁塞尔办事处的欧盟传播活动。在紧急时期之后继续进行研究将得到建立一个由学者、从业人员和社区成员组成的遗产小组的支持，该小组将为今后的研究提供基础。

The scale, diversity, persistence and severity of UK flooding events in the winter of 2013/14 are unprecedented in recent history. This provides a unique opportunity to study, in real-time, the factors that enable or inhibit fast and effective flood recovery from the perspectives of businesses, homeowners, local communities and environmental quality. As such, this study is ideally suited to the ESRC Pilot Urgency Mechanism funding scheme.This research brings together a multi-disciplinary team drawn from business and management studies, human geography and environmental science to examine the 2013/14 UK floods. By bringing together three distinct theoretical lenses (i.e. business resilience, social justice and hydrological characterisation), the project seeks to gain a fuller and more nuanced understanding of the ways in which communities, businesses and policy makers are recovering from recent floods and are preparing to reduce the impacts of future flood events. The project's core research design is a comparative cross-case analysis of four diverse sites in the UK that have experienced significant flood events in 2014: Worcester, Basingstoke, the Somerset Levels, and Staines. The sites have been selected as they represent i) high variance in the type of flooding (i.e. surface and ground water), ii) rural and urban regions, and iii) different levels of prior experience of flood events. There is a lack of comparative evidence on how businesses and communities recover from and plan for future flood events, on how policy responses influence processes of recovery, and of how tensions and interdependencies between the social, economic and environmental dimensions of flood recovery and preparedness arise and are resolved. Rapid fieldwork (i.e. both proximate to the phases of recovery and future planning) will make it possible to gather robust empirical evidence about the impacts of approaches to recovery and preparedness and in particular the tensions or synergies created in attempting to achieve business resilience, social justice and environmental quality. Additionally, this project represents a rare opportunity to study flood recovery in real-time and to evaluate the impacts (intended and unintended) of policy interventions into flooding and their interactions with 'bottom-up' processes of business and community response. In particular, there is an immediate need to reflect on the implications of the new policy paradigm of 'Natural Flood Management', which has prioritised capital projects in urban areas and relative non-intervention in rural areas. This project is therefore distinctive in the following ways: real-time rather than retrospective; capturing both recovery and preparedness in action; multi-disciplinary and, within disciplines, multi-method; comparative rather than single site or flood type. To realise our core aim to inform business, community and policy responses to flooding, we will work directly with our target non-academic beneficiaries from the outset of the project and will incorporate their feedback, requirements and solutions throughout the duration of the research. Project findings will be made available and accessible via the following platforms: Twitter; project microsite and discussion area; public briefs (written and video); Podcasts; business self-help guides and non-technical reports; interactive stakeholder workshops; dissemination events at the Houses of Parliament organised in collaboration with the Industry and Parliament Trust, and in the EU at the University of Birmingham Brussels Office. Continuity of the research beyond the urgent period will be supported by the creation of a legacy group comprised of academics, practitioners and community members that will provide the basis for future research.