Flood Resilience of Private Properties

ISBN-13: 9780367617707 / Miękka / 2023 / 158 str.

Opis

Flood Resilience of Private Properties examines the division and balance of responsibilities between the public and the private when discussing flood resilience of private properties.

Spis treści

Introduction: Increasing flood risk asks for new approaches  1. The levee effect along the Jamuna River in Bangladesh  2. Managing flood risk in shrinking cities: dilemmas for urban development from the Central European perspective  3. The effects of tailor-made flood risk advice for homeowners in Flanders, Belgium  4. More than a one-size-fits-all approach – tailoring flood risk communication to plural residents’ perspectives  5. Deconstructing the legal framework for flood protection in Austria: individual and state responsibilities from a planning perspective  6. Too much water, not enough water: planning and property rights considerations for linking flood management and groundwater recharge  7. Dealing with distributional effects of flood risk management in China. Compensation mechanisms in flood retention areas  8. Sticks and carrots for reducing property-level risks from floods: an EU–US comparative perspective

O autorze

Thomas Hartmann is Associate Professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and he teaches at J.E.P. University Ústí and Laben, Czechia, and Bonn University, Germany. He combines an engineering perspective with socio-political approaches to flood risk management and land policies and has published numerous papers, books and special issues on these topics.

Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld is Assistant Professor at the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She does research in public law, water law and liability law, where she focuses on flood resilience and recovery.

Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick is Full Professor of European and Dutch Water Law and director of the Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She focuses on water law within the broader field of environmental, spatial planning and nature conservation law from a European, constitutional, and administrative legal and interdisciplinary perspective.

Tejo Spit is Full Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He specializes in land policy, planning methodology, infrastructure planning and administrative aspects of spatial planning.