On 22 – 24 June 2021, 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management took place virtually. LAND4FLOOD COST Action hosted special session: Coping with the challenges of using private land for flood water storage (with the support of Lenka Slavikova, Andras Kis, Piotr Matczak, Nejc Bezak and Gabor Ungvari).

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 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 individual property parcels to large catchments. The goal of the mission is to publish the […]

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 was finished virtually.

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 of anti-flooding technology solutions. The output of the mission is the joint paper titled “Flood Mitigation […]

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