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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.

Economic policy and planning (general) --- European law --- Geophysics --- Meteorology. Climatology --- Geology. Earth sciences --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- waterbehandeling --- waterverontreiniging --- Europees recht --- geologie --- natuurrampen --- klimaatverandering --- broeikaseffect --- Europe

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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 risk management strategies ‘safe-to-fail’ and therewith more resilient. The book focuses on governance – rather than technical/managerial – approaches. As the book shows, new governance strategies are needed that ensure that flood risk management is not left to water managers alone. Various actors, including spatial planners, contingency agencies, NGOs and individual citizens, have a role to play in flood risk governance. Ten chapters assess different case studies from around the globe. These highlight the challenges and good practices related to learning, inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation, and debating and meeting the normative end-goals of flood risk governance. This book is essential reading for grounded scholars, reflexive policymakers and practitioners, and everyone else who is interested in contributing to more resilient and future-proof flood risk governance.

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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Although many local authorities underline the important role of citizens in climate adaptation, many experience difficulties with organizing citizen participation in a way that is meaningful to both citizens and policymakers. Climate change is for many simply not a top priority. Besides, the future is often rather abstract to people, citizens in particular. We argue that practical tools are needed to help citizens structure the process of thinking about and designing the future of their living environment under the impacts of climate change. The toolbox Towards a climate-resilient future together offers practical foresight methods and tools for organizing citizen participation in the process of building climate-resilient futures. It provides an overview of the state the art of and hands-on guidance for executing participatory foresight methods and showcases some of the lessons learned from several international research programs on citizen engagement. In doing so, the toolbox can assist practitioners, students and academics concerned with the question of how local communities in urban and rural areas could adapt to climate change impacts and become more resilient in the future. It is suitable for readers without any experience in citizen participation and/or foresight, while more experienced readers will find innovative combinations of methods and tools that are unique within the field of citizen participation and foresight.

Social sciences (general) --- Politics --- Public administration --- Meteorology. Climatology --- Environmental planning --- Social geography --- ruimtelijke ordening --- overheid --- politiek --- sociale wetenschappen --- klimatologie