Second special issue acknowledged to LAND4FLOOD COST Action published in Water International 44/5 titled Flood Resilience of Private Properties was published. Thanks Thomas Hartmann, Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld, Marleen van Rijswick & Tejo Spit for putting it together!   Content: Hartmann, T., Doorn-Hoekveld, W.J., Rijswick, M., Spit, T: Editorial. DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2019.1671464 (available here) Ruknul Ferdous, MD., Wesselink, A., Brandimarte, L., […]

Weronika Marynowska (Poland) visited University of Vigo in Spain. The purpose of the mission was to investigate the possibilities of game theory application to the issues related to flood risk management. During STSM the preparatory work the LAND4FLOOD Early Career Investigators book chapter was undertaken. The join book chapter A cooperative game for river flooding […]

Title: Flood-resilient cities – start at home Key policy messages:  – Learning to “live with the flood” instead of “fighting the flood” starts at home – on private land. – The law has a strong influence on how homeowners respond to floods. – Risk communication is not just about informing citizens, but also clarifying public and […]

30 September – 2 October 2019. The workshop brought together two main groups of participants: 1) experts and stakeholders from European countries with experience in land use agreements in flood risk mitigation and 2) representatives of Hungarian water authorities who wished to learn about the respective practices of other countries. The mutual exchange of knowledge […]

Besmira Dyca representing United Kingdom run her STMS at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). Together with Thomas Hartmann she investigates Dutch blue/green infrastructure projects implemented for the flood risk mitigation. The goal was to scrutinized how property rights are dealt with by analyzing the institutional and legal arrangements in place, as well as property based financial […]

Gregor Johnen (The Netherlands) were hosted by University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) for almost one month. Together with Nejc Bezac he applied combined modelling approach and a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to evaluate impacts of afforestation on peak river flows and on selected ecosystem services within the Glinščica river catchment in Slovenia. Results of the collaborative field […]