Title: Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation – Environmental and Socio-Economic Aspects Content: Reviews nature-based solutions used for flood mitigation, and their effectiveness Presents innovative methodologies for assessing the best locations for implementing nature-based Solutions Discusses several socio-economic issues regarding the acceptance READ MORE
Title: Spatial Flood Risk Management: Implementing Catchment-based Retention and Resilience on Private Land Content: Centralising the role of land and landowners, Spatial Flood Risk Management brings together knowledge from socio-economy, public policy, hydrology, geomorphology, and engineering to establish an interdisciplinary knowledge base READ MORE
The report was developed within the virtual mobility cooperation among colleagues from Baltic countries. The objective of the research was to identify the main barriers and most efficient enablers for activating the application of nature-based solutions (NBS) for flood risk READ MORE
The guidance document summarizes lessons learn that are useful for key stakeholders (land owners, local and regional politicians, bureaucrats, NGOs).
On 20 September, IWRA in close cooperation with LAND4FLOOD broadcasted high featured policy brief roundtable: Taking Land Seriously in Spacial Flood Risk Management. Four guest speakers – Håkan Tropp, Gabriel Eckstein, Alice Budniok, Jan Kruijshoop – gave feedback on LAND4FLOOD READ MORE
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
An achievement of the Czech funded side-project focused on flood risk management in Nepal. The overall Land4Flood project aims to improve the organization of natural flood retention measures using systemic approach, including nature-based, technical, organizational and socioeconomic aspects of flood READ MORE
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 READ MORE
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 READ MORE
Title: Compensation for Flood Storage Key policy messages: – Vulnerable downstream areas benefit from upstream flood retention services. – Flood storage is land intensive. It often infringes on private land use rights. – Compensating for flood storage requires mechanisms that link READ MORE