Governance for Drought Resilience: Land and Water Drought Management in Europe
Registro en:
9783642309106
10.1007/978-3-319-29671-5
Autor
Bressers, Hans
Bressers, Nanny
Larrue, Corinne
Institución
Resumen
On June 20, 2013, a picture went viral on the Internet in which two students were
seemingly sailing through the shopping streets of Enschede, my hometown and the
biggest city in the region of Vechtstromen, a water authority in the east of the
Netherlands. After an extraordinary downpour it was the first time ever that these
streets were flooded. It was quickly forgotten that just days before this same city
was regarded a risky “hotspot” of unusually high inner city temperatures after a
long heat wave that caused many creeks in its rural surroundings to completely dry
out. This example is consistent with a general pattern in many areas in Northwest
Europe: weathers are often more extreme than they used to be and water man-
agement will have to cope with that, through increasing the resilience of our water
systems. This book, based on the many insights that are gathered from the project
“Benefit of governance in drought adaptation” (DROP, Interreg IVb NWE) pro-
vides an overview of a variety of drought situations in six areas in Northwest
Europe, the measures taken to improve these situations and especially an in-depth
treatment of the governance conditions that support or restrict the realization
of these measures.