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Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk

McEwen, Lindsey; Wragg, Amanda; Harries, Tim

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Amanda Wragg

Tim Harries



Abstract

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. Flooding of communities is becoming a repeated, widespread issue within the UK, and elsewhere. Small businesses are a crucial part of the UK economy; the UK Summer 2007 flood resulted in flooding of 7,000 businesses and monetary loss to local economies. There has, however, been limited research on how small businesses learn to adapt to increase their resilience. This paper shares interdisciplinary research that has developed an innovative coproduction process to engage small businesses and the stakeholders that support them in resilience building, in partnership working to develop a prototype e-learning tool to promote longer-term adaptation to flooding amongst small businesses. The research focus here is on both the processes of the co-production and their influence on the outcome - The prototype e-learning tool. The co-production processes combined workshops, virtual engagement and co-creation of learning resources that captured business knowledge and learning on flood adaptation. Data were captured through: independent observation, audio/visual recording, transcription of discussions, and the participatory production of graphic outputs. Our approach reflects current ethics and practices of stakeholder participation within research so that other equally valid forms of knowledge are recognised and drawn on. The e-learning tool is designed as a living resource to support development of a community of learning practice among small businesses to increase resilience to increased flood risk.

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McEwen, L., Wragg, A., & Harries, T. (2016). Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160708010

Conference Name 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016)
Conference Location Lyon, France
Start Date Oct 17, 2016
End Date Oct 21, 2016
Acceptance Date Oct 1, 2016
Online Publication Date Oct 20, 2016
Publication Date Oct 20, 2016
Deposit Date May 11, 2017
Publicly Available Date May 11, 2017
Journal E3S Web of Conferences
Electronic ISSN 2267-1242
Publisher EDP Sciences
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 7
Pages 08010
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160708010
Keywords flooding, resilience, e-learning
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/907129
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160708010

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