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For whom this report is made

The main audience in mind when writing this report are flood risk managers involved in the FRMPs and the programmes of measures. Under budget restrictions, and with water and land being scarce goods, searching for synergies with the other water and nature protection communities and creating integrated visions and measures is an (even the) effective and efficient way forward. In isolation it may seem as if your actions go faster (at least in the beginning), by working together you get much further.

It is also meant as an introduction to water managers involved in the RBMPs and people involved in nature conservation and restoration to better understand how their actions can contribute to a sustainable flood risk management. Given the importance of land use changes and developments like urbanisation as important pressures, spatial planners and developers will find information on synergies and sustainable development of floodplains. In general, this report gives examples for all those interested in how water management (and more specific flood risk management) based on an ecosystem services approach is shaped and how flood risk management is linked to a wide variety of thematic polices influencing and influenced by flood risk management.