Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land: Disciplinary Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Challenge

Book Overview

Part I: Introduction.- Nature-based solutions in flood risk management.- Nature-based solutions & issues of scale.- Part II: small scale property solutions.- Small retention programme in the Polish forests.- Privately funded natural water retention measures in the Czech Republic.- Experimenting with re-parcelling by means of land swop.- Part III: Medium sized infrastructure solutions.- Rivers and their floodplains in city of Plzeň (CZ): System of urban wetlands as nature based flood protection measures.- The "Blue Zone Rhine Valley" a regional planning instrument for future-oriented flood management in a dynamic risk environment.- Part VI: Large scale catchment solutions.- Adaptation of climate impacts via relocation of dykes: Governmental challenges in the biosphere reserve "River Landscape ELBE-Brandenburg".- West European Climate Corridor / Green Rhine Corridor.- Part V: Conclusion. Towards a multidisciplinary approach to nature-based flood risk management.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303023844X
• ISBN13: 9783030238445
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"