1.6 Report Outline
The broad outline of this thesis is briefly described to help reader more easily navigate through the rest
of this document:
Chapter: Sets-out the research framework within which this thesis was conducted. The main concepts,
scientific relevance, knowledge gap, main research question, research sub-questions.
Chapter 2: Identifies what are the main components of flood insurance schemes by examining
scientific literature. This provides the basis for the research framework to evaluate the national case
studies in the subsequent chapters.
Chapters 3 to 5: Analyse the key characteristics and attributes of the UK, French and Belgian flood
insurance systems to elucidate conditions for effective private flood insurance
Chapter 6: Identifies practice based conditions for effective private flood insurance based on the
difference and similarities between the three case studies.
Chapter 7: Examine the characteristics of the Dutch flood compensation system to understand the
feasibility of the introduction of private flood insurance based on the presence of the practice based
conditions.
Chapter 8: Presents the answer to the main research question in the form of conclusion followed by
detailed discussion of the main results of this thesis.
The key findings for of each research sub-question will be presented as interim conclusions at the end
of the relevant chapter. In this way, the reader should be able to understand how the research steps
undertaken answer the main research question of this thesis.
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