4th June 2020 It has been a while since we met, and our next meeting needs to be postponed – but our work on LAND4FLOOD is not pausing. Actually, we are all very active with all kind of activities: books, special issues, policy briefs, empirical studies etc. Our first virtual meeting was attended by 40 […]
Third special issue published by LAND4FLOOD members is out in Environmental Hazards 19/3 titled: Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery. The special issue was compiled by Lenka Slavikova, Thomas Hartmann and Thomas Thaler. Content: Slavikova, L., Hartmann, T., Thaler, T.: Financial schemes for resilient flood recovery. DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2019.1703624 (available here) Emrich, CH. T., Tate, E., Larson, S. […]
Paul Hudson (Germany) spent two weeks at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem focusing on the cost-benefit analysis of changing property rights in flood-prone areas. The core objective of this STSM was to begin the work towards a scientific paper with the use of Czech case study. Further, the presentation at the international conference […]
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 […]
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 and experience was supplemented with a […]