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Flood Risk Management Strategies and Governance

Editat de Tom Raadgever, Dries Hegger
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 2018
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319676982
ISBN-10: 3319676989
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: XX, 174 p. 38 illus., 35 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

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.

Notă biografică

Dr. Tom Raadgever is consultant in the field of Water and Flood Risk Management at Europe’s leading engineering and architecture consultancy Sweco. During his career as researcher and consultant, Tom gained experience in water and flood risk management, governance and project- and process management in the Netherlands, Europe and South-East Asia. He has a strong drive to offer solutions to complex delta problems by translating natural and social science to policy and concrete projects. As coordinator Knowledge dissemination & networking in the EU FP7 project STAR-FLOOD, Tom was main author of the Practitioner’s Guide that is described in Part II of this book. 
Dr. Dries Hegger is an assistant professor in regional water and climate governance at Utrecht University’s Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. His research contributes to the study of modes of environmental governance and their relationship with sustainable development. He has carried out projects on water governance, flood risk governance, knowledge co-creation in regional climate adaptation projects, relationships between water companies and consumers and on innovation in wastewater management systems in a Western context. The Environmental Governance section at which Dr. Hegger is employed coordinated the EU FP7 project STAR-FLOOD, the findings of which are presented in this book.

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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.

Caracteristici

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