Authors
Pavel Raška, Nejc Bezak, Carla SS Ferreira, Zahra Kalantari, Kazimierz Banasik, Miriam Bertola, Mary Bourke, Artemi Cerdà, Peter Davids, Mariana Madruga de Brito, Rhys Evans, David C Finger, Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir, Mashor Housh, Artan Hysa, Jiří Jakubínský, Marijana Kapović Solomun, Maria Kaufmann, Saskia Keesstra, Emine Keles, Silvia Kohnová, Michele Pezzagno, Kristina Potočki, Samuel Rufat, Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, Arthur Schindelegger, Mojca Šraj, Gintautas Stankunavicius, Jannes Stolte, Ružica Stričević, Jan Szolgay, Vesna Zupanc, Lenka Slavíková, Thomas Hartmann
Publication date
2022/5/15
Source
Journal of Environmental Management
Volume
310
Pages
114725
Publisher
Academic Press
Description
The major event that hit Europe in summer 2021 reminds society that floods are recurrent and among the costliest and deadliest natural hazards. The long-term flood risk management (FRM) efforts preferring sole technical measures to prevent and mitigate floods have shown to be not sufficiently effective and sensitive to the environment. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) mark a recent paradigm shift of FRM towards solutions that use nature-derived features, processes and management options to improve water retention and mitigate floods. Yet, the empirical evidence on the effects of NBS across various settings remains fragmented and their implementation faces a series of institutional barriers. In this paper, we adopt a community expert perspective drawing upon LAND4FLOOD Natural flood retention on private land network (https://www.land4flood.eu) in order to identify a set of barriers and their cascading and …
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