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Reducing the impact of flooding on the built environment can potentially be addressed using a portfolio of adaptation strategies which tackle one or more of the three elements of risk – (1) eliminate the hazard, (2) reduce the exposure and/or (3) control the vulnerability to the consequences. Current approaches often focus on hazard and exposure, not on vulnerability.

There is a need for a Europe wide response to the flood impacts on and adaptation of the built environment to reduce its vulnerability. Increased risk is a result of rapid urbanisation and global climatic changes and therefore flooding risk cannot be viewed as a problem for individual European countries.

At present some countries are more proactive in flood defences and flood resilience and there is an opportunity for information exchange (e.g. best practices, latest research) as well as a need to develop assessment tools to implement, facilitate and enhance urban flood management strategies. The innovation incentive of this project is to help realise these benefits by providing and comparing approaches to urban flood adaptation strategies and measures and by stimulating the development of codes, guidelines and technological solutions (e.g. flood proofing) Europe wide.

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