Chapter 5: Establishing a flood risk management framework

Establishing a framework for strategic management of flood risk to local communities can provide an effective basis for local governance of flood risk and for understanding and managing local flood behaviour and its associated risks.

To be effective, a management framework needs to be able to do the following.

A management framework also needs to

The flood risk management framework provided in Figure 5.1 (derived from AIDR, 2017a) is primarily aimed at the management of flood risk at a local level to meet the requirements outlined above. Broader policy frameworks that provide a continuous cycle of planning, acting, monitoring, reviewing and adapting are provided in documents such as Sayers et al. (2013, Figure 33, p. 88).