STAR-FLOOD

During the holiday break, parts of northern England suffered from floods after 2 days of heavy rain. The UK Met Office confirmed that December has been the wettest on record for Cumbria since records began in 1910. And while... Read more »

In 2015 several damaging floods occurred in Europe, among which most recently the floods in Ireland, the UK  and Norway. In Southern Europe, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, and France experienced floods, while  floods in central Sweden forced people to... Read more »

Although the STAR-FLOOD project is still very much alive and kicking (the WP3 deliverables have just been submitted to the EU!), some of our STARFLOODies are moving on... Silvia Bruzzone and Lisa Lévy have taken on other research positions,... Read more »

During the UNESCO Conference “Our Common Future under Climate Change”, STAR-FLOOD organised a session allowing presenting the latest outputs of the project. The CEPRI (Julien Jadot) coordinated the organisation of this session entitled: Facing floods and climate challenges: designing governance... Read more »

For my master’s thesis research I participated in the RiverCare programme, a ‘perspective programme’ funded by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, bringing together knowledge institutes, governmental stakeholders and private parties. The project monitors hydromorphological, ecological, social and technical... Read more »

In England, the Coastal and Flood Erosion Resilience Partnership Funding (‘Partnership Funding’ - Defra 2011, implemented in March 2012) describes a new approach to funding which requires the costs of flood risk management projects to be shared between national... Read more »

Every year the Dutch remember their greatest natural disaster, the North Sea flood of 1953 (watersnoodramp in Dutch). On the 1st of February 1953, 1835 people lost their lives, and even more lost their homes and livestock as a... Read more »

Almost 2,5 years after the start of STAR-FLOOD, what can be said about the possibilities and limits of PAA as a means for interdisciplinary research? And what are the preliminary conclusions about the cooperation between policy and legal research... Read more »

On December 12, 2014, a French court sentenced the former mayor of a small seaside village to four years in prison for concealing flood risks that led to the death of 29 people in the storm Xynthia. Let's start the... Read more »

In 2014 several damaging floods occurred in Europe, among which the floods in England, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. These disasters once more demonstrated the urgency of managing flood risk. At the same time, stakeholders in flood risk management continue... Read more »