LAND4FLOOD Project

LAND4FLOOD: Natural Flood Retention on Private Land (CA16209) Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of future flood events, leading to higher costs of flood damages and increasing the public demand for protective measures. Traditional flood protection measures, mainly based on grey infrastructure (i.e. dikes, dams, etc), are not sufficient to cope with dynamic flood […]

Working Groups

LAND4FLOOD activities are organized according to three Working Groups: WG1 Environmental conditions The effects of land on catchment hydrology A comprehensive understanding of the effects of land use and land management on local and catchment-scale hydrology is needed to support programs of measures, which make use of private land to reduce downstream flood risk. READ MORE […]