Flood Risk Management Strategies and Governance
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Beschreibung
This book points out why organisational or governance aspects are essential for implementing a broad and integrated flood risk management approach. It provides key conclusions on resilient, efficient and legitimate flood risk governance arrangements in vulnerable urban areas in Europe. These are translated into concrete recommendations and good practices that can give you new insights and inspire you to improve policies and practices.
The book is a way of spreading the results of the EU 7th Framework Project STAR-FLOOD. The project investigated strategies for dealing with flood risks in 18 vulnerable urban regions in 6 European countries: England, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. STAR-FLOOD focused on governance aspects, from a combined public administration and legal perspective.
Provides an overview of the scientific state of the art of governance and legal studies on floods
Gives a solid underlying empirical basis: 40 researchers in 6 European countries
Translates scientific conclusions into concrete recommendations
Provides an overview of the scientific state of the art of governance and legal studies on floods Gives a solid underlying empirical basis: 40 researchers in 6 European countries Translates scientific conclusions into concrete recommendations
Autor*in
Tom Raadgever
Themen in »Flood Risk Management Strategies and Governance«
Integrated flood risk management and governance EU 7th Framework Project STAR-FLOOD Flood defence, mitigation, preparation and recovery Resilient flood risk governance European countries and multi-layered flood risk management water policy Climate change management