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Intro -- Foreword: Nature-Based Flood Risk Management -- Foreword: The Network LAND4FLOOD -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Introduction -- 1 Nature-Based Solutions in Flood Risk Management -- References -- 2 Scale in Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Risk Management -- Introduction -- Nature of Scale in Nature-Based Solutions -- Epistemic View of Scale -- Ontological View of Scale -- Upscaling or Downscaling in Flood Risk Management? -- Scale Mismatch in Socio-ecological Systems -- Concluding Remarks on Realignment of Scale in FRM -- References -- Water Retention in the Polish Forests -- 3 Reversing the Current: Small Scale Retention Programs in Polish Forests -- Introduction: Water Management in Poland in the Retention Context -- The Small Retention Programs in Polish Forests -- The Small Retention Programs in Polish Forests -- Implementation of the Small Retention Program in the Polish Forests -- Measures Applied in the Small Retention Programs -- Costs and Funding -- Actors, Stakeholders and the Property Rights Aspect of the Programs in Poland -- The Nature Conservation Aspect -- Hydrological Aspects and Monitoring the Efficiency of the Small Retention Programs -- Synergies and Tensions Between Functions -- The Problem of up-Scaling -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Commentary: A (Mostly) Hydrological Commentary on the Small Retention Programs in the Polish Forests -- References -- 5 Commentary: Small Retention in Polish Forests from a Forest Management Perspective-Copying of Existing Could Be Right Path -- Forest Ownership and Forest Stewardship -- Role of Local Stakeholders -- Why Small Retention Facilities? -- Opportunities -- Final Remarks -- References -- Small Scale NWRM in the Czech Republic -- 6 This Is My Land! Privately Funded Natural Water Retention Measures in the Czech Republic -- Introduction.

Part I: Introduction -- Nature-based solutions in flood risk management -- Nature-based solutions & issues of scale -- Part II: small scale property solutions -- Small retention programme in the Polish forests -- Privately funded natural water retention measures in the Czech Republic -- Experimenting with re-parcelling by means of land swop -- Part III: Medium sized infrastructure solutions -- Rivers and their floodplains in city of Plzeň (CZ): System of urban wetlands as nature based flood protection measures -- The "Blue Zone Rhine Valley": a regional planning instrument for future-oriented flood management in a dynamic risk environment -- Part VI: Large scale catchment solutions -- Adaptation of climate impacts via relocation of dykes: Governmental challenges in the biosphere reserve "River Landscape ELBE-Brandenburg" -- West European Climate Corridor / Green Rhine Corridor -- Part V: Conclusion. Towards a multidisciplinary approach to nature-based flood risk management

AbstractWater demand management stresses the crucial roles of water user motivations in balancing actual water availability and competing human needs. This paper shows how the absence of such motivations influences artificial water scarcity, even in resource‐abundant countries, and how slight modifications to economic instruments (surface water charges in particular) might solve the problem. Data from the Czech Republic are used to illustrate the rationale behind the artificial scarcity problem and its solution. A model with feedback based on historical surface water abstraction data is built to simulate the impacts of different payment modification scenarios.

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Intro -- Foreword: Resilience in Flood Risk Management for Communities and Citizens -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Urban Resilience -- 1.3 Private-Owned Land -- 1.4 Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 Resilient Cities and Homeowners Action: Governing for Flood Resilience Through Homeowner Contributions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Homeowner Contributions to Flood Resilience -- 2.3 Rationales for Homeowner Involvement -- 2.3.1 Technical: Climate Change and Urbanisation -- 2.3.2 Economic: Minimisation of Damage Costs -- 2.3.3 Legal: Privately Owned Properties -- 2.3.4 Social: Division of Responsibility -- 2.4 Effective, Efficient and Legitimate Flood Risk Governance -- 2.4.1 Effectiveness -- 2.4.2 Efficiency -- 2.4.3 Legitimacy -- 2.5 Homeowners and Governing for Flood Resilience: A Complex Relation -- 2.5.1 Technical Conditions and Triggers: Knowledge and Expertise -- 2.5.2 Economic Conditions and Triggers: Financial Incentives -- 2.5.3 Legal Conditions and Triggers: Voluntary or Compulsory Measures? -- 2.5.4 Social Conditions and Triggers: Communicative Instruments -- 2.6 Conclusion and Discussion -- References -- 3 Property, Property Rights, Natural Hazards and Beyond -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Defining Property and Property Rights -- 3.2.1 Property -- 3.2.2 Property Rights in Civil Law Systems -- 3.2.3 Property Rights in Common Law Systems -- 3.2.4 Equity in Common Law Systems -- 3.3 Infringements of Property Rights -- 3.3.1 Disaster Management-Preventive Strategies -- 3.3.2 Conditions for Infringements -- 3.3.3 Coping with Disasters-Recovery Strategies -- 3.4 Discussion -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Individual Behaviour in Disaster Risk Reduction -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Theoretical Concepts -- 4.2.1 Adaptation Intention.