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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share at
Elgaronline. Centralizing the role of land and landowners, Spatial
Flood Risk Management brings together knowledge from socio-economy,
public policy, hydrology, geomorphology, and engineering to
establish an interdisciplinary knowledge base on spatial approaches
to managing flood risks. Discussing key barriers and sharing
evidence-based best practices to flood risk management,
international contributors involved in the LAND4FLOOD EU COST
Action initiative (CA16209) seek transferrable solutions to the
implementation challenges of nature-based solutions. Introducing
the concept of spatial flood risk management, the multi-national
teams of authors consider the notion of land through three
analytical lenses: as a biophysical system, a socio-economic
resource, and a solution to flood-risk management. Advocating for a
more comprehensive approach, the book explores options of where and
how to store water within catchments, including decentralized water
retention in the hinterland, flood storage along rivers, and
planned flooding in resilient cities. Bringing together the
existing knowledge on the relation between flood risk management
and land with an international and interdisciplinary scope, this
book will prove invaluable to academics, policy makers and public
authorities involved in flood risk management, urban planners, and
governing environmental bodies.
Financial schemes for flood recovery, if properly designed and
implemented, might increase flood resilience. However, options for
the increase of flood resilience during the recovery phase are to a
large extent overlooked and the diversity of existing schemes shows
that there has been a lack of consensus on how to achieve resilient
flood recovery. Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery
investigates how the implementation of financial schemes
(government relief subsidies, insurance schemes, buy-outs, etc.)
might increase flood resilience. The chapters included in this
edited volume address the following questions: Shall government
relief subsidies exist when there is flood insurance in place, and,
if so, how might they both be coordinated? Where (or how) to decide
about build back better incentives and where to go for planned
relocation programs? What is the distributional equity of financial
schemes for flood recovery, and has it been sufficiently treated?
The book covers different approaches to flood recovery schemes with
specific intervention rationales in different countries. Empirical
evidence provided clearly shows the great diversity of financial
flood recovery schemes. This diversity of state-funded schemes,
private-based insurance schemes, and hybrids as well as planned
relocation schemes indicates a lack of a consistent and strategic
approach in flood risk management and flood resilience about flood
recovery. The chapters in this book were originally published in
the Environmental Hazards.
This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of
nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In
recent decades, water management has been moving towards
nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more
multi-purpose than traditional "grey infrastructures" and seem to
be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same
time, such measures require more - and mostly privately owned -
land and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional
(grey) engineering approaches. They also present challenges related
to different disciplines. Nature-based solutions for flood risk
management not only require technical expertise, but also call for
interdisciplinary insights from land-use planning, economics,
property rights, sociology, landscape planning, ecology, hydrology,
agriculture and other disciplines to address the challenges of
implementing them. Ultimately, nature-based flood risk management
is a multi-disciplinary endeavor. Featuring numerous case studies
of nature-based flood risk management accompanied by commentaries,
this book presents brief academic reflections from two different
disciplinary perspectives that critically highlight which specific
aspects are of significance, and as such, underscore the
multi-disciplinary nature of the challenges faced.
This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of
nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In
recent decades, water management has been moving towards
nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more
multi-purpose than traditional "grey infrastructures" and seem to
be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same
time, such measures require more - and mostly privately owned -
land and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional
(grey) engineering approaches. They also present challenges related
to different disciplines. Nature-based solutions for flood risk
management not only require technical expertise, but also call for
interdisciplinary insights from land-use planning, economics,
property rights, sociology, landscape planning, ecology, hydrology,
agriculture and other disciplines to address the challenges of
implementing them. Ultimately, nature-based flood risk management
is a multi-disciplinary endeavor. Featuring numerous case studies
of nature-based flood risk management accompanied by commentaries,
this book presents brief academic reflections from two different
disciplinary perspectives that critically highlight which specific
aspects are of significance, and as such, underscore the
multi-disciplinary nature of the challenges faced.
This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven
natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves
or forest fires, continue to play a central role across the globe
in the 21st century. Urban resilience has become an important term
in response to climate change. Resilience describes the ability of
a system to absorb shocks and depends on the vulnerability and
recovery time of a system. A shock affects a system to the extent
that it becomes vulnerable to the event. This book focus examines
how private property-owners might implement such measures or
improve their individual coping and adaptive capacity to respond to
future events. The book looks at the existence of various planning,
legal, financial incentives and psychological factors designed to
encourage individuals to take an active role in natural hazard risk
management and through the presentation of theoretical discussions
and empirical cases shows how urban resilience can be achieved. In
addition, the book guides the reader through different conceptual
frameworks by showing how urban regions are trying to reach urban
resilience on privately-owned land. Each chapter focuses on
different cultural, socio-economic and political backgrounds to
demonstrate how different institutional frameworks have an impact.
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