By the 2050s, more than 120 million people are predicted to settle in the Pearl River Delta
(PRD), which covers large coastal cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong …

Modern flood risk management involves responding sustainably to flood risk with portfolios
of structural and non‐structural measures. Under these circumstances of multi‐attribute …

Flood disasters have upward trends and devastating impacts in cities worldwide. This
problem could be due to lack of participation of flood prone community leaders in flood risk …

Flood management alternatives are often evaluated on the basis of flood parameters such
as depth and velocity. As these parameters are uncertain, so is the evaluation of the …

Much attention is paid to the increasing number of people living in cities while a relatively
understudied but related phenomenon is silently gaining strength: that of “shrinking cities.” In …

Flood risk management (FRM) has become the new paradigm of reducing flood disasters in
Europe. The EU Flood Action Programme 2004 and the recently implemented EU Floods …

This paper examines constraints and enabling factors towards 'integration'as they are
perceived by actors involved in an ongoing strategy development process. The paper …

In Dutch highway infrastructure planning a transformation from line-oriented approaches to
area-oriented approaches can be observed. Conventional line-oriented planning …

A major shift in approaches to the management of flooding is now underway in many
countries worldwide. This shift has been stimulated by severe floods, for example on the …

The paper presents a methodology on how to consistently deal with the future change and
management options in integrated water resources management (IWRM). It is based on a …