Title: How Private Land Matters in Flood Risk Management? Key policy messages : – Flood water can be stored in the catchment, upstream of cities, or in the cities themselves. – In all three areas, the affected land is often privately owned. – Hence flood risk management – including prevention and resilience – should be […]

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 (available here).   Bornschein, A., Pohl, R.: Land use influence on flood routing and retention from the […]

1st – 28th February 2018 Aleksa Lipovac (Serbia) visited the Reykjavik University (Iceland) to continue in the research on natural water retention measure potential started by Alexandra. He cooperated with David C. Finger and Guðmundur Halldórsson, member of The Soil Conservation Service of Iceland. Output: Paper on  Flood Retention on Private Land in Iceland will be presented […]

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 understanding flood changes at the catchment scale caused by changes in forest management, agricultural practices, […]

9th – 10th November 2017 about 50 people from 28 countries participated in the 1st large LAND4FLOOD meeting, including the special guest, prof. James Nickum from IWRA. The content of the first Policy Brief was developed during the workshop.

14th September 2017 LAND4FLOOD COST Action started! Management Committee approved the management structures of the project.