Toward more flood resilience: Is a diversification of flood risk management strategies the way forward?
European countries face increasing flood risks because of urbanization, increase of exposure and damage potential, and the effects of climate change. In literature and in practice, it is argued that a diversification of strategies for flood risk management (FRM), including flood risk prevention (through proactive spatial planning), flood defense, flood risk mitigation, flood preparation, and flood recovery, makes countries more flood resilient. Although this thesis is plausible, it should still be empirically scrutinized. We aim to do this. Drawing on existing literature we operationalize the... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Schlagwörter: | Belgium / capacity to absorb and recover / capacity to resist / capacity to transform and adapt / comparison / diversification of flood risk management strategies / England / Europe / evaluation / flood risk governance / France / the Netherlands / Poland / resilience / Sweden |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27352912 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/344123 |