Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: An interdisciplinary overview using expert community approach
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2022
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Raška, PavelBezak, Nejc
Ferreira, Carla S.S.
Kalantari, Zahra
Banasik, Kazimierz
Bertola, Miriam
Bourke, Mary
Cerdà, Artemi
Davids, Peter
Madruga de Brito, Mariana
Evans, Rhys
Finger, David C.
Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfi, Rares
Housh, Mashor
Hysa, Artan
Jakubínský, Jiří
Kapović Solomun, Marijana
Kaufmann, Maria
Keesstra, Saskia
Keles, Emine
Kohnová, Silvia
Pezzagno, Michele
Potočki, Kristina
Rufat, Samuel
Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, Samaneh
Schindelegger, Arthur
Šraj, Mojca
Stankunavicius, Gintautas
Stolte, Jannes
Stričević, Ružica

Szolgay, Jan
Zupanc, Vesna
Slavíková, Lenka
Hartmann, Thomas
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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 compound interactions relevant to individual NBS. The experts identified a comprehensi...ve set of 17 barriers affecting the implementation of 12 groups of NBS in both urban and rural settings in five European regional environmental domains (i.e., Boreal, Atlantic, Continental, Alpine-Carpathian, and Mediterranean). Based on the results, we define avenues for further research, connecting hydrology and soil science, on the one hand, and land use planning, social geography and economics, on the other. Our suggestions ultimately call for a transdisciplinary turn in the research of NBS in FRM.
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Europe / Flood risk management / Implementation barrier / Nature-based solutionSource:
Journal of Environmental Management, 2022, 310, 114725-Publisher:
- Academic Press