Gabor Ungvari (Hungary) and Nejc Bezak (Slovenia)
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 in Malaga (17 May – 21 June 2021)
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 READ MORE
Carla in Stockholm (4 – 11 May 2021)
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 READ MORE
Francesca working virtually (16 February – 18 March 2021)
Francesca Ciampa (Italy) cooperated with Carla S. Ferreira (Portugal) virtually as the STSM was not possible to undertake in other way than due to COVID pandemics. The topic of the mission was Stakeholders engagement between retention flood strategies and life cycle READ MORE
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Paper: Strategic use of instruments of land policy for mobilising private land for flood risk management
Title: Strategic use of instruments of land policy for mobilising private land for flood risk management Full citation: Löschner L., Hartmann T., Priest S., Collentine D. STRATEGIC USE OF INSTRUMENTS OF LAND POLICY FOR MOBILISING PRIVATE LAND FOR FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT. Environmental Science READ MORE
Paper: Land for flood risk management—Instruments and strategies of land management for polders and dike relocations in Germany
Title: Land for flood risk management—Instruments and strategies of land management for polders and dike relocations in Germany Abstract Like many other countries, Germany aims to create flood retention areas via polders and dike relocations. As these measures require access to READ MORE
Paper: Flood prevention in Serbia and legal challenges in obtaining the land for flood risk management
Title: Flood prevention in Serbia and legal challenges in obtaining the land for flood risk management Abstract Serbia suffered severe flood events in May 2014, which affected 1.6 million people. The Government declared a state of emergency for the territory of READ MORE
IWRA Policy Brief 12/2021
Title: Taking land seriously in spatial flood risk management Key policy messages: – Stop financing measures! Focus on the governance of private land for flood risk management. – Focus on private land! Flood risk management today leans too much on READ MORE
Paper: Paradoxes of financial schemes for resilient flood recovery of households
Title: Paradoxes of financial schemes for resilient flood recovery of households Abstract Flood resilience (resilient flood risk management), which has been repeatedly demanded, can be achieved through the phases of the risk management cycle. There is a vast body of literature READ MORE