Silvia Serrao-Neumann

Biographic Data

ID901841
NAMESilvia Serrao-Neumann
GIVEN NAMESSilvia
FAMILY NAMESerrao-Neumann
SIGNATURESERRAO-NEUMANN S
AFFILIATIONSGriffith University
ORCID0000-0001-9601-4914
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS74
WORKS AS AUTHOR24
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Cultural landscapes at risk

    Open AccessKate Hooper Pishief, Christina Hanna et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Heritage…2026

    Worldwide, cultural landscapes face growing threats from climate change and related hazards. Preserving these unique environments is vital – not only to safeguard their tangible and intangible heritage but also to learn from their stewardship as we navigate the challenges of a changing climate. Applying a document analysis, this paper investigates the extent to which Aotearoa New Zealand’s current legislative and regulatory planning regime and he…

  • Advancing adaptation of highly heterogeneous urban contexts for improved distributive climate justice

    Open AccessGabriela Di Giulio, Silvia Serrao-Neumann et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2025

  • Evaluating riverine flood policy

    Open AccessChristina Hanna, Pip Wallace et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2025Cited by: 1References: 6

    Globally, the responsibility to develop flood risk policy is often devolved to local government. However, local governments can lack the capacity to keep up with increasing and changing flood risk and information provision without external guidance and support. Central and state governments can deliver policy support and consistency by providing policy direction or standards based on best practice. Due to diverse localised modelling, plans and po…

  • Urban food planning and management in Melbourne

    Letícia Canal Vieira, Silvia Serrao-Neumann et al.ARTICLEInternational Planning Studies2024

    Over the last decades, local governments have begun to develop urban food planning instruments focused on improving public health and environmental sustainability, but shortcomings still exist. This paper builds on the case of the Melbourne Metropolitan Region (Australia) to elaborate on how urban food planning and management can address the challenges exposed by a systemic approach. Challenges include strengthening local food economies, developi…

  • Understanding amenity and travel time preferences, and how this differs

    Open AccessIain White, Xinyu Fu et al.ARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2024

    This paper aims to understand public preferences concerning the amenities people prefer easy access to and how much time they would prefer to spend getting there. The empirical data draw from a national survey (1491 responses) in Aotearoa New Zealand. For amenity, we reveal citizens significantly prefer access to local shops and greenspace. For active travel time, 20 minutes was an upper threshold, regardless of mode, beyond which people are more…

  • Enhancing disaster risk governance for small-scale recurring disasters through pre-determining emergency response and recovery entry points for improved social outcomes

    Open AccessKishani Tennakoon, Silvia Serrao-Neumann et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Disaster…2023

    There is growing recognition that climate change is increasing the frequency of disasters globally. Historical disaster data show that the majority of disasters are non-catastrophic. However, these less severe disasters can occur in quick succession and affect the resilience of the communities, and their long-term impacts can be just as severe. Nevertheless, emergency management policies are largely developed around larger-scale disasters, along …

  • Green or Grey Pandemic Recovery? Revealing the Blue–Green Infrastructure Influences in Aotearoa-New Zealand’s “Shovel Ready” Covid-19 Response

    Christina Hanna, Iain White et al.ARTICLEUrban Policy and Research2023

    This paper analyses Aotearoa-New Zealand’s “shovel-ready fund” to assess if, and how, blue–green infrastructure systems were present in bids from its largest city regions. More positively, there was some evidence of unique indigenous influences that have potential to develop more inclusive and holistic blue–green infrastructure initiatives. The overall response, however, demonstrates a disjointed approach to blue–green infrastructure-related proj…

  • Intrinsic barriers to and opportunities for community empowerment in community-based tourism development in Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam

    Dung Thi Ngoc Nguyen, Anne-Marie D’hauteserre et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sustainable Tourism2022

    Even though community empowerment is a crucial component of sustainable tourism, true community empowerment is in fact hard to achieve and still eludes many countries. Few studies have looked at factors that may inhibit or encourage empowerment processes for local people. In response to this gap, this article explores intrinsic barriers to and opportunities for community empowerment in community-based tourism development in Thai Nguyen province, …

  • Using green infrastructure as a social equity approach to reduce flood risks and address climate change impacts

    Open AccessJuliana Reu Junqueira, Silvia Serrao-Neumann et al.ARTICLECities2022Cited by: 4References: 56

  • Examining the incorporation of small-scale recurring disasters in emergency management frameworks

    Open AccessKishani Tennakoon, Silvia Serrao-Neumann et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Disaster…2021

  • Integrando conhecimentos para avançar na adaptação climática no nível local

    Open AccessMichele Dalla Fontana, Fabiano De Araújo Moreira et al.ARTICLEEstudos Avançados2021References: 15

    Os problemas ambientais e sociais existentes no nível local desempenham papel importante na forma em que os efeitos das mudanças climáticas se manifestam. Embora os acordos internacionais e as estratégias nacionais sejam indispensáveis no enfrentamento dessas alterações, as especificidades de cada território requerem respostas de adaptação específicas. A adaptação climática é, assim, desafio particularmente urgente para os tomadores de decisão no…

  • When salient science is not enough to advance climate change adaptation

    Open AccessSilvia Serrao-Neumann, Gabriela Di Giulio et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2020Cited by: 5References: 12

  • Bridging Adaptive Learning and Desired Natural Resource Management Outcomes

    Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Melanie Cox et al.ARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2019

    Natural resource management (NRM) has been increasingly guided by governance arrangements seeking less centralized and hierarchical and more integrated and adaptive approaches to achieve desired social-ecological outcomes. Successful implementation of these approaches requires adaptive learning which entails the application of individual, institutional and social learning to adaptive co-management. This paper proposes and validates a conceptual m…

  • Urban water metabolism information for planning water sensitive city-regions

    Open AccessSilvia Serrao-Neumann, Marguerite Renouf et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2019Cited by: 1References: 65

  • Climate change adaptation narratives

    Open AccessLiese Coulter, Silvia Serrao-Neumann et al.ARTICLEFutures2019Cited by: 11References: 47

  • Environmental Sustainability

    Open AccessMichael Howes, Liana Wortley et al.ARTICLESustainability2017

    For a generation, governments around the world have been committed to sustainable development as a policy goal. This has been supported by an array of new policies ranging from international agreements, to national strategies, environmental laws at many levels of government, regional programs, and local plans. Despite these efforts, decades of scientific monitoring indicate that the world is no closer to environmental sustainability and in many r…

  • Water in the city

    Open AccessGemma Schuch, Silvia Serrao-Neumann et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2017Cited by: 7References: 48

  • Connecting land-use and water planning

    Open AccessSilvia Serrao-Neumann, Marguerite Renouf et al.ARTICLECities2017Cited by: 5References: 53

  • Interrogating resilience

    Open AccessJulie Davidson, Julie L Davidson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2016Cited by: 13

    Davidson, J. L., C. Jacobson, A. Lyth, A. Dedekorkut-Howes, C. L. Baldwin, J. C. Ellison, N. J. Holbrook, M. J. Howes, S. Serrao-Neumann, L. Singh-Peterson, and T. F. Smith. 2016. Interrogating resilience: toward a typology to improve its operationalization. Ecology and Society 21(2):27.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08450-210227

  • Maximising synergies between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

    Open AccessSilvia Serrao-Neumann, Florence Crick et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2015Cited by: 4References: 12

  • One human settlement

    Open AccessSilvia Serrao-Neumann, Gemma Schuch et al.ARTICLEFutures2015Cited by: 14References: 69

  • Propostas metodológicas em pesquisas sobre risco e adaptação

    Open AccessGabriela Di Giulio, Gabriela Marques Di Giulio et al.ARTICLEAmbiente & sociedade2014Cited by: 1References: 10

    Neste artigo, os autores discutem a utilização de grupos focais e de planejamento com cenários envolvendo stakeholders e pesquisadores como instrumentos metodológicos em estudos qualitativos sobre risco, tanto para aferir percepções, identificar demandas, discutir propostas e soluções, como para promover a participação de uma comunidade ampliada de pares na produção de dados e no enfrentamento dos riscos associados a eventos extremos e mudanças a…

  • The Role of Anticipatory Governance in Local Climate Adaptation

    Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Ben P Harman et al.ARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2013

    Anticipatory governance is emerging in the literature and practice as a form of decision-making which attempts to deal with climate change complexities and uncertainties. Underpinning the anticipatory governance approach to decision-making is a three-step process which includes future analysis, flexibility of strategies and monitoring and action. This paper adopts the anticipatory governance and its three-step approach as a framework to investiga…

  • Climate change adaptation

    Open AccessSilvia Serrao-Neumann, Gabriela Di Giulio et al.ARTICLEFutures2013Cited by: 8References: 26