Chennat Gopalakrishnan is Professor (Emeritus) of Natural Resource Economics at the University of Hawaii. He has published seven books and approximately 115 journal articles and technical papers on current and emerging issues in natural resource economics and policy. He is a fellow of the American Water Resources Association and International Water Resources Association and a Distinguished Scholar of the Western Agricultural Economics Association.

• 1. Introduction: designing water disaster management policies: theory and empirics 2. Flood disaster management policy: an analysis of the United States Community Ratings System 3. A historical examination of the Corps of Engineers and natural valley storage protection: the economics and politics of ‘green’ flood control 4. Probabilistic forecasting and the reshaping of flood risk management 5. Examining the benefits of collaboration: the Provider-User Matrix for collaborative flood risk management illustrated by the case of the Ljusnan River, Sweden 6. Adapting to catastrophic water scarcity in agriculture through social networking and inter-generational occupational transitioning 7. Can social resilience inform SA/SIA for adaptive planning for climate change in vulnerable regions?

Chennat Gopalakrishnan is Professor (Emeritus) of Natural Resource Economics at the University of Hawaii. He has published seven books and approximately 115 journal articles and technical papers on current and emerging issues in natural resource economics and policy. He is a fellow of the American Water Resources Association and International Water Resources Association and a Distinguished Scholar of the Western Agricultural Economics Association.

• 1. Introduction: designing water disaster management policies: theory and empirics 2. Flood disaster management policy: an analysis of the United States Community Ratings System 3. A historical examination of the Corps of Engineers and natural valley storage protection: the economics and politics of ‘green’ flood control 4. Probabilistic forecasting and the reshaping of flood risk management 5. Examining the benefits of collaboration: the Provider-User Matrix for collaborative flood risk management illustrated by the case of the Ljusnan River, Sweden 6. Adapting to catastrophic water scarcity in agriculture through social networking and inter-generational occupational transitioning 7. Can social resilience inform SA/SIA for adaptive planning for climate change in vulnerable regions?

Chennat Gopalakrishnan is Professor (Emeritus) of Natural Resource Economics at the University of Hawaii. He has published seven books and approximately 115 journal articles and technical papers on current and emerging issues in natural resource economics and policy. He is a fellow of the American Water Resources Association and International Water Resources Association and a Distinguished Scholar of the Western Agricultural Economics Association.

• 1. Introduction: designing water disaster management policies: theory and empirics 2. Flood disaster management policy: an analysis of the United States Community Ratings System 3. A historical examination of the Corps of Engineers and natural valley storage protection: the economics and politics of ‘green’ flood control 4. Probabilistic forecasting and the reshaping of flood risk management 5. Examining the benefits of collaboration: the Provider-User Matrix for collaborative flood risk management illustrated by the case of the Ljusnan River, Sweden 6. Adapting to catastrophic water scarcity in agriculture through social networking and inter-generational occupational transitioning 7. Can social resilience inform SA/SIA for adaptive planning for climate change in vulnerable regions?