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DOI 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114725
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Title (Primary) Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: An interdisciplinary overview using expert community approach
Author Raška, P.; Bezak, N.; Ferreira, C.S.S.; Kalantari, Z.; Banasik, K.; Bertola, M.; Bourke, M.; Cerdà, A.; Davids, P.; de Brito, M.M.; Evans, R.; Finger, D.C.; Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir, R.; Housh, M.; Hysa, A.; Jakubínský, J.; Kapović Solomun, M.; Kaufmann, M.; Keesstra, S.; Keles, E.; Kohnová, S.; Pezzagno, M.; Potočki, K.; Rufat, S.; Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, S.; Schindelegger, A.; Šraj, M.; Stankunavicius, G.; Stolte, J.; Stričević, R.; Szolgay, J.; Zupanc, V.; Slavíková, L.; Hartmann, T.
Source Titel Journal of Environmental Management
Year 2022
Department SUSOZ
Volume 310
Page From art. 114725
Language englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Keywords Flood risk management; Nature-based solution; Implementation barrier; Europe
Abstract 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 comprehensive 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.
Persistent UFZ Identifier https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=25833
Raška, P., Bezak, N., Ferreira, C.S.S., Kalantari, Z., Banasik, K., Bertola, M., Bourke, M., Cerdà, A., Davids, P., de Brito, M.M., Evans, R., Finger, D.C., Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir, R., Housh, M., Hysa, A., Jakubínský, J., Kapović Solomun, M., Kaufmann, M., Keesstra, S., Keles, E., Kohnová, S., Pezzagno, M., Potočki, K., Rufat, S., Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, S., Schindelegger, A., Šraj, M., Stankunavicius, G., Stolte, J., Stričević, R., Szolgay, J., Zupanc, V., Slavíková, L., Hartmann, T. (2022):
Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: An interdisciplinary overview using expert community approach
J. Environ. Manage. 310 , art. 114725 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114725