Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land 9783030238414

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Hydrology & the hydrosphere

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Wordery

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Purkyne university

Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land : Springer : 9783030238414 : 3030238415 : 02 Sep 2019 : This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional ?grey infrastructures? and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such measures require more ? and mostly privately owned ? land and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional (grey) engineering approaches. They also present challenges related to different disciplines. Nature-based solutions for flood risk management not only require technical expertise, but also call for interdisciplinary insights from land-use planning, economics, property rights, sociology, landscape planning, ecology, hydrology, agriculture and other disciplines to address the cha

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