LAND4FLOOD calls and up-dates
IWRA Webinar – N°15 broadcasted from LAND4FLOOD meeting in Riga
IWRA organised a webinar on “How Private Land Matters in Flood Risk Management” jointly with the LAND4FLOOD COST Action. This webinar built on the IWRA’s Policy Brief authored by Professors Hartmann and Slavikova on How Private Land Matters in Flood Risk Management produced in close collaboration with this same European initiative. The event was live streamed from the EU COST […]
Jan in Wageningen
1st – 31st August 2018 Jan Macháč (Czech Republic) spent one month at the Wageningen university (the Netherlands) developing the experimental approach to flood protection using negotiation between upstream and downstream actors. The preliminary design of the experiment was supervised by Thomas Hartmann. Output: Abstract for the international conference Empowering Hydro-diplomacy (Hague, October 2018) was […]
VIDEO: What is COST Action LAND4FLOOD about?
Watch the LAND4FLOOD video with interviews! Why is it important to address land management together with flood risk management? What is the value added of the COST Action in this matter? Why is LAND4FLOOD special? Watch also our second Riga meeting video!
2nd Action MC Meeting and Workshop – Riga
19th – 21st June 2018 more than 60 people from 34 COST member countries, Australia and United States attended second large LAND4FLOOD meeting in Riga (Latvia). We are happy that group is growing, cooperating and enjoying time altogether. In Riga, we hosted three guest speakers: Todd S. Bridges (U. S. Army Corp of Engineers), Anita […]
IWRA Policy Brief 1/2018
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 […]
Special Issue Land for Flood Risk Management
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 […]