Title: Understanding the role of policy frameworks on land degradation in stakeholders perception from a Post‐Conflict perspective of Bosnia and Herzegovina Abstract Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a developing country facing extensive land degradation. BIH exists as a decentralized state, READ MORE
Title: Expectations, disappointments, and individual responses: Imbalances in multilevel flood risk governance revealed by public survey Abstract The recent paradigm shift towards multilevel flood risk governance has raised discussions about the potential of different entities to undertake specific flood risk READ MORE
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, READ MORE
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., 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: 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 READ MORE
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 READ MORE
Title: Nature-based solutions for flood-drought risk mitigation in vulnerable urbanizing parts of East-Africa Abstract Urbanization and climate changes have direct impacts on ecosystems and the services they provide to society, thus influencing human well-being and health. Urban sprawl may conflict with READ MORE
First Special Issue of the COST Action LAND4FLOOD has been published in the Journal of Flood Risk Management 11/1 (March 2018)! (here) Content: Hartmann, T., Jílková, J., Schanze, J.: Land for flood risk management: A catchment‐wide and cross‐disciplinary perspective. DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12344 READ MORE
We are happy to announce that colleagues associated with LAND4FLOOD group contributed to the paper published in Water Resources Research. Title: Land use change impacts on floods at the catchment scale: Challenges and opportunities for future research Abstract Research gaps in READ MORE