Towards improving the implementation of integrated flood riks management

Issue no 1, April 2014:

This first STAR-FLOOD policy brief presents the first results of the STAR-FLOOD project, concerning the state-of-the-art in flood risk management and a framework for analysing flood risk governance. The results and recommendations are relevant for developing new approaches to flood risk management, for example in drafting flood risk management plans when implementing the floods directive (2007/60/EC). Recommendations include: (1) combine multiple flood risk management strategies; (2) develop or improve flood risk governance arrangements; (3) overcome existing institutional fragmentation with bridging mechanisms.