This study, conducted under the Horizon Europe Restore4Life project, evaluates the economic and ecological feasibility of operating natural floodplain spawning grounds for fishery management along the Middle Tisza River, focusing on the Fokorúpuszta ...
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Factors influencing farmers’ willingness to provide private land for a coordinated flood mitigation scheme in the Drin basinJournal of Flood Risk ManagementResearch paper
Flooding poses a significant and recurring threat in numerous regions. The adverse impacts of flooding can be mitigated through risk sharing, such as insurance or risk reduction. However, insurance might not be accessible in underdeveloped markets or in ...
Reducing flood risk through floodplain restoration along the Danube River and tributariesAnalysis
The main objective of the Danube Floodplain Interreg project focuses on the improvment of transnational water management and flood risk prevention while maximizing benefits for biodiversity conservation.
Cost estimation and exploration of the regional economic aspects of the use of the legally designated right bank emergency polder of the Rába RiverAnalysis
When an exceptionally high flood takes place on the Rába sections below Sárvár, decision-makers responsible for flood protection can choose between two defense strategies. They can opt for intensive defense on the main dike sections or use the emergency ...
Flood Insurance in the areas of Skadar/Shkoder Lake-Buna/Bojana River, and Struga in Ohrid LakeAnalysis
As member of a project consortium, we analysed the viability of flood insurance schemes in the Drin countries (North Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro), using selected Drin regions as pilot areas. Our analysis relied on economic, social, hydrological and ...
Approaches to state flood recovery funding in Visegrad Group CountriesEnvironmental HazardsResearch paper
Flood recovery is an important period in the flood risk management cycle. Recently, flood recovery has become viewed as an opportunity for future flood damage mitigation. Financial flows to cover flood damages and rules regarding their allocation are ...
LAND4FLOOD – Regional WorkshopMulti-purpose land use agreements in floodplains and flood water storage reservoirsEvent
The Water Economics Unit of REKK has been an active participant of LAND4FLOOD, a Europe-wide multidisciplinary scientific cooperation in the field of nature based flood management. LAND4FLOOD is a COST Action cooperation supported by the EU Horizon 2020 ...
A simple compensation mechanism for flood protection services on farmlandLand Use PolicyResearch paper
Reservoirs for the transient storage of water in order to lower river flood peaks would usually be built on farmland and used in case of a serious flood event. Farmers’ willingness to have their lands included in a reservoir critically depends on the ...
The effect of the opening of the Tiszaroff flood storage reservoir on downstream flood riskDevelopment of a Monte Carlo simulation based decision support systemAnalysis
A decision support system was developed for the Middle Tisza Region Water Directorate (Kötivizig). The flood-storage reservoir at Tiszaroff can provide significant help to avoid a potential flood catastrophe. Although the opening of the flood gates ...
The emerging role of economic analysis in decision support for the operation of offline flood storage reservoirsAn example based on the case ofthe Tiszaroff reservoirResearch paper
The construction of a series of flood peak reservoirs along the River Tisza was the result of a change in flood defense strategy triggered by the experiences of the Millennium floods and a Hungarian national budget constraint. The Tiszaroff flood ...
