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Flood Resilience of Private Properties examines the division and balance of responsibilities between the public and the private when discussing flood resilience of private properties.
Flooding is an expensive climate-related disaster and a threat to urban life. Continuing development in flood-prone zones compound the risks. Protecting all properties to the same standards is ever more challenging. Research has focused on improved planning and adapting publicly-owned infrastructure such as streets, evacuation routes, and retention ponds. However, damages often happen on private land. To realize a flood-resilient city, owners of privately-owned residential houses also need to act. Measures such as mobile barriers and backwater valves or avoiding vulnerable uses in basements can make homes more flood-resilient. But private owners may be unaware of flooding risks or may lack the means and knowledge to act. Incentives may be insufficient, while fragmented or unclear property rights and responsibilities entrench inertia. The challenge is motivating homeowners to take steps. Political and societal systems influence the action citizens are prepared to take and what they expect their governments to do. The responsibility for implementing such measures is shared between the public and the private domain in different degrees in different countries.
This book will be of great interest to scholars of water law, property rights, flood risk management and climate adaptation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Water International.
Contents
Introduction: Increasing flood risk asks for new approaches 1. The levee effect along the Jamuna River in Bangladesh 2. Managing flood risk in shrinking cities: dilemmas for urban development from the Central European perspective 3. The effects of tailor-made flood risk advice for homeowners in Flanders, Belgium 4. More than a one-size-fits-all approach - tailoring flood risk communication to plural residents' perspectives 5. Deconstructing the legal framework for flood protection in Austria: individual and state responsibilities from a planning perspective 6. Too much water, not enough water: planning and property rights considerations for linking flood management and groundwater recharge 7. Dealing with distributional effects of flood risk management in China. Compensation mechanisms in flood retention areas 8. Sticks and carrots for reducing property-level risks from floods: an EU-US comparative perspective
