Science-Policy BRIEF No. 3: Adaptive Flood Risk Management in European and Asian cities

Description

The overall aim of CORFU is to enable European and Asian partners to learn from each other through joint investigation, development, implementation and dissemination of short to medium term strategies that will enable more scientifically sound management of the consequences of urban flooding in the future.

This brief summarizes the CORFU project main outputs. The project has had wide ranging policy impacts at the supranational, national, and local scales by:

1. providing guidance and practical examples on how to implement the requirementsof the European Floods Directive;
2. leading to real policy changes in the way floods are managed in cities; new national guidelines have been developed for China;
3. proving that the DPSIR (Drivers-Pressures-States-Impacts-Response) framework has an added value as an approach to evaluate the effectiveness of different flood management strategies;
4. providing further insights for effective flood risk management which needs to extend beyond economic damage and consider other key consequences, such as the health impacts.

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