Objectives

The overarching aim of REMATCH is to take on the exciting and timely opportunity from recent scientific and technological advances and develop an innovative and effective communitybased flood risk management strategy to build community resilience to flooding from multiple sources. The following five objectives are identified:

O1 Assemble a cohesive inter-disciplinary research team and establish strong researcherstakeholder partnerships to develop effective approaches to co-produce/share knowledge, communicate and manage risk, and enhance community resilience to flooding;

O2 Understand the key drivers of flood hazards and apply a multi-hazard risk analysis framework to quantify flood risk from multiple sources in the case study catchment and identify those most-at-risk communities;

O3 Investigate and understand the historical and cultural implications for contemporary resilience building and impacts on socio-economic development;

O4 Adopt a citizen science approach to scope a pilot community-based real-time flood forecasting and warning system based on crowd-sourced and remote-sensing data streams;

O5 Identify the major challenges in developing community resilience (to be addressed in the full GCRF project) and develop a preliminary approach to measuring community flood resilience.