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Interregional and Transnational Co-operation in River Basins – Chances to Improve Flood Risk Management?

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  • Birgit Haupter
  • Peter Heiland
  • Jürgen Neumüller

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In European river basins many flood management and protection measures are planned. However, the realisation of effective but space consuming measures such as retention areas and dike relocation mostly lags far behind time schedules. The development and set-up of an interregional and transnational basin-wide co-operation structure (“flood management alliance”) is substantial to realise catchment oriented flood management. In particular, this co-operation structure must involve spatial planning. The interregional and transnational co-operation structure establishes the framework for the joint accomplishment of instruments for flood risk management which is basin-wide agreed on. One of these instruments comprises financial compensations between downstream and upstream regions which shall improve the acceptance and the realisation of measures which bear disadvantages for the regions where measures are located. Existing and planned basin-wide co-operations in large transnational European river catchments demonstrate reasonable developments towards these goals. However, further efforts have to be made to exploit the chances interregional co-operation offers for improved flood risk management. Copyright Springer 2005

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  • Birgit Haupter & Peter Heiland & Jürgen Neumüller, 2005. "Interregional and Transnational Co-operation in River Basins – Chances to Improve Flood Risk Management?," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 36(1), pages 5-24, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:36:y:2005:i:1:p:5-24
    DOI: 10.1007/s11069-004-4536-9
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