Flood Risk Management Strategies and Governance

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Researching Flood Risk Governance in Europe (Dries L. T. Hegger, Peter P. J. Driessen, Marloes H. N. Bakker)....Pages 3-23 Diversification of Flood Risk Management Strategies – Necessity and Importance (Dries L. T. Hegger, Peter P. J. Driessen, Marloes H. N. Bakker)....Pages 25-33 Enhancing Connectivity Between Strategies by Bridging Actors, Levels and Sectors (Dries L. T. Hegger, Peter P. J. Driessen, Marloes H. N. Bakker)....Pages 35-45 Rules and Resources for Flood Risk Governance (Dries L. T. Hegger, Peter P. J. Driessen, Marloes H. N. Bakker)....Pages 47-54 Evaluations of Flood Risk Governance in Terms of Resilience, Efficiency and Legitimacy (Dries L. T. Hegger, Peter P. J. Driessen, Marloes H. N. Bakker)....Pages 55-61 Implications for Risk Governance Research and Practice (Dries L. T. Hegger, Peter P. J. Driessen, Marloes H. N. Bakker)....Pages 63-81 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 The Relevance of Flood Risk Management and Governance (G. T. (Tom) Raadgever, Nikéh Booister, Martijn K. Steenstra)....Pages 85-92 Flood Risk Management Strategies (G. T. (Tom) Raadgever, Nikéh Booister, Martijn K. Steenstra)....Pages 93-100 Flood Risk Governance (G. T> (Tom) Raadgever, Nikéh Booister, Martijn K. Steenstra)....Pages 101-108 Integrated Planning, Coordination and Collaboration (G. T. (Tom) Raadgever, Nikéh Booister, Martijn K. Steenstra)....Pages 109-123 Before a Flood Event (G. T. (Tom) Raadgever, Nikéh Booister, Martijn K. Steenstra)....Pages 125-145 During a Flood Event (G. T. (Tom) Raadgever, Nikéh Booister, Martijn K. Steenstra)....Pages 147-157 After a Flood Event (G. T. (Tom) Raadgever, Nikéh Booister, Martijn K. Steenstra)....Pages 159-170 Back Matter ....Pages 171-174