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Taking land seriously in spatial flood risk management. Policy brief on LAND4FLOOD – Natural Flood Retention on Private Land.

We need to change how we think about flood risk management. Successfully implementing sustainable flood risk mitigation measures requires approaches that are different from the management of grey infrastructure measures, such as dams, dikes, or levees. For large grey infrastructure projects, the defining factor is engineer-ing. Measures are designed where they will function and then the needed land is acquired. However, green natural flood measures, primarily based on achieving retention “where the rain falls”, will often include a large number of small measures and generally involve sites on privately owned land. In contrast to grey infrastructure projects, financing the construction of natural flood risk reduction measures is often only a minor part of the project. For green measures, investment in time and money is needed not only for hydrological studies and models, but throughout the process for preparation, design, and dialogue with landowners before, during and after a program for flood risk reduction is proposed and approved. KEY POLICY MESSAGES: • Stop financing measures! Focus on the governance of private land for flood risk management. • Focus on private land! Flood risk management today leans too much on publicly owned land. • Take time! Getting landowners on board is a long process.

Natural flood retention measures, Land management, Governance, Scale

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