Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Flood Community of Practice

Piet Filet

Project Description

Over a 10 year history, this network arranges a range of events for sharing knowledge and experiences on developing flood resilient landscapes and communities. The workshops are interactive and cater for professionals from all roles in building physical and social resilience. Events are mostly face to face and occasionally online. It is supported by a consortium of Government, University and Consulting companies.

Project Personnel and Beneficiaries

To achieve flood resilience, the Flood Cop aims to assist colleagues in Local and Sate Government, Water Utilities, Regional NRM groups, consultants, academics and industry bodies.

Outcomes to Date

N/A

Project Significance

Building flood resilience requires a broad mix of different discipline skills to address the complexity of the issue. From a catchment scale, to neighbourhood and to house lot scales requires ecologists, engineers, town planner, architects and social specialists to combine their skills and this a key feature of the Flood Cop Learning from each other, building trust and then collaborating. As a result this work underpins success needs for SDG 6, 11 and 13.

Co-authors
Piet Filet
Project start
2020
Project end
2024
Academic area
Australian Rivers Institute
Project location
  • Nathan
Project geographical impact
  • National
Publication date
November 20, 2023
Last updated
5:12 pm, November 20, 2023