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Flood Risk Management Strategies and Governance / edited by Tom Raadgever, Dries Hegger.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: XX, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9783319884691
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Flood risk management strategies and governance; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 551 23
Contents:
Preface -- 1. Necessity and importance of a diversification of flood risk management strategies -- 2. Establishing connectivity between actors, levels and sectors -- 3. The involvement of private parties, including businesses, citizens and NGOs in flood risk governance -- 4. Diversification in rules and regulations -- 5. Availability of resources -- 6. Evaluations of flood risk governance in terms of resilience -- Conclusions.
Summary: 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.
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Preface -- 1. Necessity and importance of a diversification of flood risk management strategies -- 2. Establishing connectivity between actors, levels and sectors -- 3. The involvement of private parties, including businesses, citizens and NGOs in flood risk governance -- 4. Diversification in rules and regulations -- 5. Availability of resources -- 6. Evaluations of flood risk governance in terms of resilience -- Conclusions.

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.

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