1st Edition
Flood Resilience of Private Properties
Introduction: Increasing flood risk asks for new approaches
Thomas Hartmann, Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld, Marleen van Rijswick and Tejo Spit
1. The levee effect along the Jamuna River in Bangladesh
Md Ruknul Ferdous, Anna Wesselink, Luigia Brandimarte, Giuliano Di Baldassarre and Md Mizanur Rahmanf
2. Managing flood risk in shrinking cities: dilemmas for urban development from the Central European perspective
Pavel Raška, Monika Stehlíková, Kristýna Rybová and Tereza Aubrechtová
3. The effects of tailor-made flood risk advice for homeowners in Flanders, Belgium
Peter Davids, Luuk Boelens and Barbara Tempels
4. More than a one-size-fits-all approach – tailoring flood risk communication to plural residents’ perspectives
Karin A. W. Snel, Patrick A. Witte, Thomas Hartmann and Stan C. M. Geertman
5. Deconstructing the legal framework for flood protection in Austria: individual and state responsibilities from a planning perspective
Magdalena Rauter, Arthur Schindelegger, Sven Fuchs and Thomas Thaler
6. Too much water, not enough water: planning and property rights considerations for linking flood management and groundwater recharge
Thomas Jacobson
7. Dealing with distributional effects of flood risk management in China. Compensation mechanisms in flood retention areas
L. Dai, W. J. van Doorn-Hoekveld, R. Y. Wang and H. F. M. W. van Rijswick
8. Sticks and carrots for reducing property-level risks from floods: an EU–US comparative perspective
C. B. R. Suykens, D. Tarlock, S. J. Priest, W. J. Doorn-Hoekveld and H. F. M. W. van Rijswick
Biography
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.
