Workshop report: Strategies for achieving flood resilience
The three-day LAND4FLOOD PhD-Workshop on “Innovative and successfully implemented strategies for achieving resilience in Flood Risk Management with a special focus on private and public property flood resilience” from Monday 9th September to Wednesday, 11th September 2019 was conducted by the Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management, under the management of Prof Dr Robert […]
Book: Nature-based Flood Risk Management on Private Land
Our first Open Access book was published by Springer. Download it here Content: Nature-based solutions (NBS) in Flood Risk Management require more—and mostly privately owned—land, and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional (grey) engineering approaches. This also implies that there are challenges related to different disciplines. Flood risk management with NBS is an issue not only […]
Karin in London (7 January – 18 March 2019)
Karin Snel (The Netherlands) spent more than two month at Flood Hazard Research Centre of the Middlesex University in London, working with Sally Priest. She focused on the instruments and communication needs for encouraging the uptake of individual risk resilience measures. The intended research considered the English socio-political context and instruments, and their use for […]
Paper on flood retention compensation in Austria
Title: Compensating flood retention on private land in Austria: Towards polycentric governance in flood risk management? Abstract Flood retention, in particular controlled flood retention, plays an increasingly prominent role in the portfolio of flood risk management strategies. Though a highly effective measure to reduce the risk of flooding for vulnerable areas, flood retention is land-intensive and infringes […]
3rd Action MC Meeting and Worskhop – Thessaloniky
On 26 – 28 June 2019 more than 70 LAND4FLOOD people met again in Thessaloniky, Greece. The topic of the meeting was Towards Increased Stakeholder Engagement in Flood Risk Management. We invited four keynote speakers to discuss challenges of stakeholder participation. At the end of the meeting we tested role board Flood Resilience Game under the […]
PhD workshop in Kaiserslautern
9 – 11 September 2019. The three-day LAND4FLOOD PhD-Workshop on “Innovative and successfully implemented strategies for achieving resilience in Flood Risk Management with a special focus on private and public property flood resilience” was conducted by the Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management, under the management of Prof Dr Robert Jüpner at Technische Universität […]
Conference Report: Conclusions of the 1st EU conference on risk perception
The European conference in March 2019 in Paris and Cergy, France, has gathered 46 researchers, experts and practitioners from 15 different countries (Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom) and 4 international organisations (European Union, OECD, UNESCO, United Nations University) for 7 panels, 3 workshops […]
Miroslav in Lancaster
Miroslav Bauer (Czechia) visited Lancaster Environmental Centre (England) to exchange knowledge on sediment transport and nutrient transfer measurement during floods. He worked together with prof. John Quinton. Join paper: Soil erosion and flood mitigation in CZ and UK – comparison, discussion and lesson learned. The abstract was sent to the XIX. International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference […]
Mariana in Vigo
Mariana Madruga de Brito (Germany) visited the department of Statistics and Operational Research, and the Department of Forest Engineering of the University of Vigo in Spain. With the support of Dr. Juan Vidal Puga she undertook the systematic literature review of papers that apply game theory for solving flood risk management problems. STSM also served […]