Dear All
This message is both an announcement and a request. The UK’s Tyndall
Centre for Climate Change Research has granted funding for a new research
project entitled ‘Health and Flood Risk: A Strategic assessment of
Adaptation Processes and Policies’.
The project entails a review of existing knowledge on health (and health
system) impacts of flooding around the world and of society’s adaptive
responses to these impacts at all scales (from grassroots coping
mechanisms to health sector policies). The aim is to synthesize and
critically assess understandings of adaptation to the health risks of
flooding, and develop a priority agenda for future research. The project
will culminate in an international workshop in the UK in mid-2004, with a
series of written outputs aimed at different audiences.
One of the key aspects of this review is that we intend to survey a wide
range of non-academic as well as academic literature. We are particularly
interested in studies and reports by agencies and NGOs that refer to
flooding, health and adaptation/policy, many of which we suspect have not
been published in formal academic journals. Do any members of the list
have document/reference suggestions that might be of help to us?
If you do, or if you just want to note your interest in the project,
please do contact me.
Many thanks in advance,
Roger Few, Lead Investigator
Dr Roger Few
Overseas Development Group
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
UK
Tel.+44 1603 593678 Fax +44 1603 591170
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