LAND4FLOOD calls and up-dates

Paper: Land Policy for Flood Risk Management—Toward a New Working Paradigm

Title: Land Policy for Flood Risk Management—Toward a New Working Paradigm Abstract Flood risk management (FRM) aims to integrate necessary technical measures with environmental and societal approaches. Focusing on the process and governance of how to plan, implement, and maintain solutions therefore becomes essential. Among the different stakeholders, landowners are a key group to be considered. […]

Published in Academia, Publications

Book: Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation – Environmental and Socio-Economic Aspects

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 and implementation of nature-based Solutions   You can buy the eBook here.

Published in Policy & Decision-makers, Publications

Paper: Combining Flood Risk Mitigation and Carbon Sequestration to Optimize Sustainable Land Management Schemes: Experiences from the Middle-Section of Hungary’s Tisza River

Title: Combining Flood Risk Mitigation and Carbon Sequestration to Optimize Sustainable Land Management Schemes: Experiences from the Middle-Section of Hungary’s Tisza River Abstract The record floods experienced along the Tisza River between 1998 and 2001 brought a paradigm shift in infrastructural solutions for flood protection. A flood peak polder system was built for transient water storage […]

Published in Academia, Publications

Paper: Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: An interdisciplinary overview using expert community approach

Title: Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: An interdisciplinary overview using expert community approach Abstract The major event that hit Europe in summer 2021 reminds society that floods are recurrent and among the costliest and deadliest natural hazards. The long-term flood risk management (FRM) efforts preferring sole technical measures to prevent and mitigate floods […]

Published in Academia, Publications

CountrySide Magazine: Taking land seriously in spatial flood risk management

In cooperation with European Landowner Organization (ELO), we prepared the information about key LAND4FLOOD policy recommendations. The information was published in September/October 2021 issue. Read it HERE.

Published in Landowners & Citizens, Media

LAND4FLOOD COST Action forms new IWRA Task Force

The COST Action ended successfully in March 2022. To continue networking activities it has been turned into new a IWRA Task Force, LAND4FLOOD. For more information click here. If you are interested in joining the Task Force,  send your CV and motivation to the  office@iwra.org with the subject line: LAND4FLOOD Task Force.

Published in Media