LAND4FLOOD calls and up-dates
3rd Action MC Meeting and Worskhop – Thessaloniky
On 26 – 28 June 2019 more than 70 LAND4FLOOD people met again in Thessaloniky, Greece. The topic of the meeting was Towards Increased Stakeholder Engagement in Flood Risk Management. We invited four keynote speakers to discuss challenges of stakeholder participation. At the end of the meeting we tested role board Flood Resilience Game under the […]
PhD workshop in Kaiserslautern
9 – 11 September 2019. The three-day LAND4FLOOD PhD-Workshop on “Innovative and successfully implemented strategies for achieving resilience in Flood Risk Management with a special focus on private and public property flood resilience” was conducted by the Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management, under the management of Prof Dr Robert Jüpner at Technische Universität […]
Conference Report: Conclusions of the 1st EU conference on risk perception
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 4 international organisations (European Union, OECD, UNESCO, United Nations University) for 7 panels, 3 workshops […]
Miroslav in Lancaster
Miroslav Bauer (Czechia) visited Lancaster Environmental Centre (England) to exchange knowledge on sediment transport and nutrient transfer measurement during floods. He worked together with prof. John Quinton. Join paper: Soil erosion and flood mitigation in CZ and UK – comparison, discussion and lesson learned. The abstract was sent to the XIX. International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference […]
Mariana in Vigo
Mariana Madruga de Brito (Germany) visited the department of Statistics and Operational Research, and the Department of Forest Engineering of the University of Vigo in Spain. With the support of Dr. Juan Vidal Puga she undertook the systematic literature review of papers that apply game theory for solving flood risk management problems. STSM also served […]
Stakeholder workshop in Edinburgh
16-17 May 2019. Workshop brought experts together from around the world to discuss the challenges and opportunities of funding, designing, implementing, maintaining and monitoring the effectiveness of nature-based features as part of flood risk management plans. It also provided the opportunity to visit either a Scottish (Eddleston Water) or English (Belford Burn) field site where nature-based […]