The Flood Resilience Systems Framework: from Concept to Application

Disaster risk is on the increase, burgeoning due to development drivers and barriers to effective risk management. There is an urgent need to understand and effectively tackle these drivers within the disaster-development system. Resilience is a concept with its roots in systems analysis, which if embraced can foster the transformative change needed to meet this challenge. This paper demonstrates how the Flood Resilience System Framework (FLORES) has been operationalized in the form of three distinct tools: a qualitative model that specifies causal connections between the framework elements, a stylized quantitative dynamic model of household flood resilience, and the Flood Resilience Game that works as an interactive, handson introduction to the framework. The paper also describes how these tools were implemented in multi-stakeholder workshop in Peru, Indonesia, and Spain.