The Building REsilience to Multi-source Flooding in Southeast/South Asia through a Technology-informed Community-based approacH (REMATCH) project was
funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council/Global Challenges Research Fund and
involved an interdisciplinary research team to tackle the multidimensional challenges
of flooding. The project was led by Newcastle University in collaboration with Dr Oliver Hensengerth from Northumbria University, and researchers from An
Giang University, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, and
the Asian Institute of Technology.
The
aim of the REMATCH project was to explore recent scientific and technological
advances and develop an innovative and effective community-based
flood risk management strategy to build community resilience to flooding from
multiple sources.
Many regions in
Southeast and South Asia are particularly vulnerable to flooding which
repeatedly affects millions of people. Due to the prevailing monsoon, abundant
river systems and long coastlines, floods are often a result of multiple
drivers, commonly including tropical storms, typhoons and storm surges.
Awareness and
understanding of flood risk at the local to national level often remains low
and most low-income communities do not have well-coordinated hazard reduction
and management schemes in place. There is an urgent need to develop and
implement effective risk communication and management strategies to prepare the
local communities for future floods, with focus on pre-event disaster risk
management and resilience building through active engagement with communities.
The REMATCH
project involved five interlinked work packages:
- Risk communication and knowledge sharing
- Multi-source flood risk assessment and communication
- Historical and cultural implications on flood resilience
- Citizen science approaches towards real-time flood monitoring and warning
- Measuring and building flood resilience
You can find out more about
the research activities, team members and access research outputs from the project’s dedicated website.
