Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of
environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration …

Abstract The implementation of Natural Flood Management (NFM), as an example of a
nature‐based solution (NbS), is promoted as a risk reduction strategy to support sustainable …

While human impacts on rivers and other landforms have long been a component of
geomorphic research, little of this work explicitly includes insights into human agency from …

What rights does the state have over privately owned land? Why should some landowners
be favoured over others? How can the practice of land-use planning be improved? This …

This paper compares the inherent notions of justice in four different approaches to flood risk
management in Europe. As protection against flood risks becomes increasingly difficult …

Good land policy provides a diversity of land uses with plural property relations. No single
kind of property rules fits the purposes of all types of land uses. Neither is a de-tached single …

Recent years have seen a growing recognition of and attention to strengthening community
flood resilience as a key leverage for achieving sustainable flood risk management. The …

In 1973, Horst W Rittel and Malvin A Webber introduced the term 'wicked problem'in
planning theory. They describe spatial planning as dealing with inherent uncertainty …

What is the role of spatial planners in urban development? Planners can be very involved in
the realization of the land-use plans or they can take a more passive role in development …

How do municipalities strategically use land policy to develop land for housing? The
development of housing is a challenge for many European countries, though the scale and …