1st Edition
Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery
Introduction: financial schemes for resilient flood recovery
Lenka Slavíková, Thomas Hartmann and Thomas Thaler
1. Measuring social equity in flood recovery funding
Christopher T. Emrich, Eric Tate, Sarah E. Larson and Yao Zhou
2. Approaches to state flood recovery funding in Visegrad Group Countries
Lenka Slavíková, Pavel Raška, Kazimierz Banasik, Marton Barta, Andras Kis, Silvia Kohnová, Piotr Matczak and Ján Szolgay
3. Financial recovery schemes in Austria: how planned relocation is used as an answer to future flood events
Thomas Thaler and Sven Fuchs
4. The French Cat’ Nat’ system: post-flood recovery and resilience issues
Bernard Barraqué and Annabelle Moatty
5. An assessment of best practices of extreme weather insurance and directions for a more resilient society
P. Hudson, L.T. De Ruig, M.C. de Ruiter, O.J. Kuik, W.J.W. Botzen, X. Le Den, M. Persson, A. Benoist and C.N. Nielsen
6. Disaster, relocation, and resilience: recovery and adaptation of Karamemedesane in Lily Tribal Community after Typhoon Morakot, Taiwan, Environmental Hazards
Sasala Taiban, Hui-Nien Lin and Chun-Chieh Ko
7. Post-disaster communalism: land use, ownership, and the shifting ‘publicness’ of urban space in recovery
Elyse M. Zavar and Ronald L. Schumann III
8. Prospects for disaster management in China and the role of insurance
Xian Xu
Biography
Lenka Slavíková is Associate Professor in public economics at J.E. Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She specializes in water and biodiversity governance with the focus on Central and Eastern European Countries. She investigates flood risk perception of household and municipalities and financial instruments to achieve flood resilience.
Thomas Hartmann is Associate Professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and he teaches at J.E. Purkyně University, Ústí and Laben, Czech Republic, 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.
Thomas Thaler is Research Fellow at the Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. He focuses on design and effectiveness of natural hazard governance systems as well as integrating European environmental policies into national and local institutions.
