Edited by Thomas Hartmann, School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Germany, Lenka Slavíková, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies and Institute for Economic and Environmental Policy (IEEP), Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czech Republic and Mark E. Wilkinson, Department of Environmental and Biochemical Sciences, James Hutton Institute, UK

• Contents:Foreword xiiSally PriestAcknowledgement xiv1 Introduction to Spatial Flood Risk Management:Implementing Catchment-based Retention and Resilienceon Private Land 1Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková and Mark E. WilkinsonPART I WATER RETENTION IN THE HINTERLAND2 Nature-based solutions for flow reduction in catchmentheadwaters 13Mary Bourke, Mark E. Wilkinson and Zorica Srdjevic3 Legal challenges of restricting land use for natural floodprotection in the hinterland 33Juliane Albrecht and Sofija Nikolić Popadić4 Implementation of measures in the hinterland: transactioncosts and economic instruments 52Gábor Ungvári and Dennis CollentinePART II FLOOD STORAGE ALONG RIVERS5 Technical and hydrological effects across scales andthresholds of polders, dams and levees 68Reinhard Pohl and Nejc Bezak6 Financial compensation and legal restrictions for usingland for flood retention 89Andras Kis, Arthur Schindelegger and Vesna Zupanc7 Upstream-downstream schemes and their instruments 106Thomas Hartmann, Lukas Löschner and Jan MacháčPART III RESILIENT CITIES8 Individual measures for adaptive cities 120Christin Rinnert, Thomas Thaler and Robert Jüpner9 Institutionalizing the resilient city: constraints and opportunities 134Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir and Barbara Tempels10 The role of risk transfer and spatial planning for enhancingthe flood resilience of cities 148Paul Hudson and Lenka SlavíkováPART IV CONCLUSION11 Challenges of spatial flood risk management 164Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková and Mark E.WilkinsonIndex

‘In a world where climatic variability is expected to deluge various regions of the world, the link between land use and water management will become even more evident. Hence, this book is a very timely and welcomed compilation of articles exploring nature-based solutions for flood risk management on privately-owned lands. It fills a large gap in the literature and is certainly a major contribution to the field.’