Spatial Flood Risk Management

Implementing Catchment-based Retention and Resilience on Private Land

Edited by Thomas Hartmann, School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Germany, Lenka Slavíková, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies and Institute for Economic and Environmental Policy (IEEP), Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czech Republic and Mark E. Wilkinson, Department of Environmental and Biochemical Sciences, James Hutton Institute, UK

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Centralising 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.

‘In a world where climatic variability is expected to deluge various regions of the world, the link between land use and water management will become even more evident. Hence, this book is a very timely and welcomed compilation of articles exploring nature-based solutions for flood risk management on privately-owned lands. It fills a large gap in the literature and is certainly a major contribution to the field.’
——加布里埃尔Eckstein,德州农工大学和imiate past-President of The International Water Resources Association, US

‘Global climate change will cause more flood damage. The implementation of nature-based water retardation and absorption measures on both private and public land is an essential damage mitigation strategy. This book by leading European flood experts provides a roadmap to the hydrological, economic, geographic, legal and social challenges that the adoption and implementation of effective strategies poses.’
– A. Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Tech, US