LAND4FLOOD calls and up-dates
Paris Conference
13 – 15 March 2019 In the cooperation with the Samuel Rufat from the University of Cergy-Pontoise LAND4FLOOD COST Action organizes European Conference on Risk Perception, Behaviour, Management and Response in Paris. See the enclosed Conference Programme. You can see the full conference report here.
Workshop Report: Compensation Mechanism for Flood Storage
Flood storage is an effective but also land intensive approach for alleviating flood risk. Governance approaches are needed to balance costs and benefits by involving both the providers and the beneficiaries of flood retention services. The workshop in Salzburg explored the issue of compensation for flood storage based on two Austrian flood retention projects. Results […]
David in Ljubljana
15th – 23rd December 2018 David Ch. Finger (Iceland) visited colleagues in Slovenia to investigate the perception of local farmers of adhering to a sustainable land management in order to increase the flood retention on their lands. Together with Vesna Zupanc he planned survey with farmers to produce comparative data sets from Iceland, Slovenia, Serbia and Bosna and Herzegovina. Preliminary […]
Paper in Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health on urban NBS in East Africa
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 ecosystem services, e.g. enhancing water-related stresses and risks of, e.g., droughts and floods, with significant […]
South-European regional workshop in Coimbra
30 January – 1 February 2019. Regional stakeholder workshop Nature based solutions for flood retention in Southern Europe was organized by Carla S. Ferreira and Sandra J. M. Mourato from in Coimbra (Portugal). The workshop aimed to facilitate knowledge exchange between researchers, practitioners and stakeholders, including flood policy makers, representatives from farmers’ associations, regional flood protection agencies/enterprises and local […]
Regional stakeholder workshop in Salzburg
15th – 16th October 2018 Lukas Löschner (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna) and Arthur Schindelegger (Vienna University of Technology) organized a two-day regional workshop with international experts on the theme of Compensation mechanisms for flood storage in the province of Salzburg. By the example of two flood protection sites in Altenmarkt im Pongau and Mittersill, the […]