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The main goal of the ENHANCE project  ('Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe')  is to develop and analyse innovative ways to manage natural hazard risks and the key for that is to develop new multi-sectoral

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The ENHANCE project (Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe) analyses and develops new multi-sector partnernsips (MSPs) between public and private sectors, with emphasis on the financial sector. Analysing

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This research provides a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of flood risk governance in the Netherlands. It includes: i) Identification of Flood Risk Strategies present in the Netherlands and their respective dominance; ii) Analysis of the embedding of

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This handbook highlights the learnings from a three-day exchange of Chief Resilience Officers from eight countries, and features tactical solutions and tools from both participating 100 Resilient Cities member cities and Platform partners. It contains

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Natural Hazards, March 2016, Volume 81, Issue 1, pp. 99-121, doi:10.1007/s11069-015-2074-2:

This paper discusses a new, additional approach to support flood risk management: the storyline approach, which serves to analyse the whole sequence of events

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This document examines two geographically distinct cases of flood management infrastructure in the Dutch delta to demonstrate the influence of existing hydraulic works, in mutual interaction with social responses and environmental processes, on the

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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 15, March 2016, Pages 1–9, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.11.004:

This study analyses various government-sponsored natural disaster insurance pools in the US, New Zealand, Spain and France, as well as

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FEEM Working Paper No. 041.2015:

This paper investigates if and how current EU policies influence flood insurance. While the question of supply and demand is at the core of the debate, the authors argue that another key dimension is often overlooked: how

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