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Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: An interdisciplinary overview using expert community approach

Nejc Bezak
Zahra Kalantari
Miriam Bertola
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Mary Bourke
Artemi Cerdà
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Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir
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Mashor Housh
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Artan Hysa
Jiří Jakubínský
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Marijana Kapović Solomun
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Maria Kaufmann
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Saskia Keesstra
Emine Keles
Silvia Kohnová
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Michele Pezzagno
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Kristina Potočki
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Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni
Arthur Schindelegger
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Mojca Šraj
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Gintautas Stankunavicius
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Jannes Stolte
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Ružica Stričević
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Jan Szolgay
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Vesna Zupanc

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.
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hal-03668463 , version 1 (14-05-2022)

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Pavel Raška, Nejc Bezak, Carla S.S. Ferreira, Zahra Kalantari, Kazimierz Banasik, et al.. Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: An interdisciplinary overview using expert community approach. Journal of Environmental Management, 2022, 310, pp.114725. ⟨10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114725⟩. ⟨hal-03668463⟩
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