Flood Risk Governance for More Resilience

• Other Authors: Matczak, Piotr (Editor), Hegger, Dries (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Environmental economics; city-to-city learning; policy transfer; resilient cities; water squares; flooding; erosion; coping; adaptation; Jamuna River; Bangladesh; citizen engagement; flood risk governance; governance capacity; climate adaptation; science-policy interface; flood risk management; climate change; social learning; integrated flood risk management; Room for the River program; multilevel governance; IAD framework; adaptive governance; multi-level safety; untaming; disaster risk reduction; climate change adaptation; river restoration; green infrastructure; ecosystem services; acceptability; attitudes; co-benefits; preferences; participation; adaptive capacities; diversified flood risk management strategies; pilot project; governance networks; learning; flood prevention; policy instruments; spatial planning; governance; resilience; science-policy interactions; interdisciplinarity
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Flood risks worldwide are being exacerbated due to urbanisation and the consequences of climate change. This poses a challenge to traditional managerial approaches to flood risk management that try to be 'fail-safe'. This book presents innovative and practical lessons on how to make flood...