On 20 September, IWRA in close cooperation with LAND4FLOOD broadcasted high featured policy brief roundtable: Taking Land Seriously in Spacial Flood Risk Management. Four guest speakers – Håkan Tropp, Gabriel Eckstein, Alice Budniok, Jan Kruijshoop – gave feedback on LAND4FLOOD effort to get landowners on board for natural flood retention. Learn more here.

Attended: International conference ECOLOGY & SAFETY in Burgas, Bulgaria (26 – 29 August 2020) Presenting: The Importance of Participatory Governance for Riparian Zone: A Case Study of Gediz River (abstract here)

On 22 – 24 June 2021, 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management took place virtually. LAND4FLOOD COST Action hosted special session: Coping with the challenges of using private land for flood water storage (with the support of Lenka Slavikova, Andras Kis, Piotr Matczak, Nejc Bezak and Gabor Ungvari).

Attended: FloodRisk2021 (22 – 24 June, virtually) Presenting: within the paned of the LAND4FLOOD special session: Coping with the challenges of using private land for flood water storage

Jesus Rodrigo-Comino (Germany) spent more than one month working with Jose Maria Senciales Gonzales (Spain) aiming at comprehensive understanding of the role of land use on flood risk and the potential for enhancing retention capacity for different spatial scales ranging from individual property parcels to large catchments. The goal of the mission is to publish the […]

Carla S. Ferreira (Portugal) visited Zahra Kalantari (Sweden) to investigate how projected runoff affected by the climate change will affect flood hazard in the Mediterranean region. The duration of the mission was affected negatively by the COVID pandemics, but draft paper was finished virtually.