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Work Package 1 Environmental knowledge production and controversy

Explore the environmental knowledge production and controversies surrounding flood risk management, highlighting different modeling practices, network constraints, and implications on policy and local communities.

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Work Package 1 Environmental knowledge production and controversy

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  1. Work Package 1Environmental knowledge production and controversy Sarah Whatmore Catharina Landström School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford

  2. Environmental Risk • Flooding in public • Flood risk Environment Agency for England and Wales • Flood warnings • Flood strategies

  3. Mapping Knowledge • Interviews • Ethnography • Document analysis • Competency group participation

  4. Findings • Modes of modelling • Computer modelling = different practices • Network constraints • Relationships • Standardisation • Essential objects

  5. Implications? • Science • Different constructions of flooding? • Policy • Criteria for selecting science? • Management • Wider evidence-base? • Local communities • New forms for participation?

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