In her book, Apolonia Diana Sherly da Costa opens a new horizon for local participatory mapping and discussions on river fl ood resilience. She includes disaster-aff ected communities in the fl ood-prone district of Belu on the Timor Sea coast and at the estuary of the Benenain River in the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara on the border with Timor-Leste. Geographic information related to fl ood hazard distribution maps and the history of fl ood frequency are included in the discussion as well as in the risk assessment section. By having the community participate and contribute to the risk assessment process of hazard maps and their resilience capacity, there is the ability of behavior adaptivity to provide independent solutions to face fl ood disaster, which then become a local understanding of each resilience spectrum for themselves. Thus, this Timorese’s local resilience spectrum to face fl ood hazard based on community perception can become a reference for the wider and global community wherever they are, who are and/or are not in a disaster situation and experience. The community has shown that with awareness, initiative and willingness to work together and with asset resilience preparation at each post-fl ood disaster and pre-fl ood disaster, momentum for future fl ood risk anticipation can be achieved through a necessary gradual learning of fl ood disaster management and resilience by and for themselves.weiterlesen