Maria Viota (Spain) traveled to Serbia to explore the potentiality of urban green infrastructure (UGI), ecosystem services (ES) and nature-based solutions (NBS) in protecting cities, with an emphasis on urban planning. The attention of the mission was paid to the role READ MORE
Karolina Kolasinska (Poland) cooperated with Prof. Silvia Kohnova (Slovak University of Technology Bratislava) to determine the flood indexes of the CN method for the small catchment areas and to run water cycle simulations. The cooperation will result in join publications.
Jan Brabec (Czechia) visited Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research at Corvinus University of Budapest to explore factors affecting Balkan farmers’ willingness to implement flood mitigation measures on private land and to purchase flood insurance products. Econometric modelling was run to test literature READ MORE
Marek Hekrle (Czechia) visited University of Lisbon in Portugal to work on comparison of economic assessments of nature-based solutions for flood protection in Czech Republic and Portugal. During the STSM, this joint paper was drafted in the form of outline and READ MORE
Title: Impact of nature based solutions for flood risk management on soil and agricultural development – EU consideration and Serbian prospective Abstract Throughout history, floods have played one of the most important roles in soil formation, maintenance and modification of soil READ MORE
Adam Krajewski (Poland) spent two weeks working with Nejc Bezak (University of Ljubljana) investigating impact of rainfall interception due to urban greenery on flood generation. Obtained results confirm significant role of urban greenery in runoff generation and flood risk reduction. READ MORE
Zuzana Nemetova (Slovakia) cooperated with Prof. Kazimierz Banasik from Warsaw University of Life Sciences. They worked on mathematical modelling of soil degradation processes and evaluation of flood protection measures within the territory of Poland and the Slovak Republic. The results from READ MORE
Title: Understanding the role of policy frameworks in developing land degradation in stakeholders perception from a post-conflict perspective in Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a developing country facing extensive land degradation. BiH exists as a decentralized state, where READ MORE
Amy Phillips (representing Belgium) spent two weeks in Czech Republic cooperating with Jan Macháč on public perceptions of urban nature-based solutions for flood protection on private and public land and developing the comparative study between Brussels and Prague. The conference abstract READ MORE
Title: Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery Book Description Financial schemes for flood recovery, if properly designed and implemented, might increase flood resilience. However, options for the increase of flood resilience during the recovery phase are to a large extent overlooked READ MORE