Spatial Flood Risk Management – Implementing Catchment–based Retention and Resilience on Private Land

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Centralizing 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.

Discussing key barriers and sharing evidence-based best practices to flood risk management, international contributors involved in the LAND4FLOOD EU COST Action initiative (CA16209) seek transferrable solutions to the implementation challenges of nature-based solutions. Introducing the concept of spatial flood risk management, the multi-national teams of authors consider the notion of land through three analytical lenses: as a biophysical system, a socio-economic resource, and a solution to flood-risk management. Advocating for a more comprehensive approach, the book explores options of where and how to store water within catchments, including decentralized water retention in the hinterland, flood storage along rivers, and planned flooding in resilient cities.

Bringing together the existing knowledge on the relation between flood risk management and land with an international and interdisciplinary scope, this book will prove invaluable to academics, policy makers and public authorities involved in flood risk management, urban planners, and governing environmental bodies.

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