Table of contents
- 0. Flood Risk - general comments
- 1. Executive summary
- 2. Introduction
- 2.1 Floods in Europe
- 2.2 Environmental aspects of floods and floodplains
- 2.3 Floodplain areas areas
- 2.4 Strategic flood risk management
- 2.5 Outline and reading guidance
- 3 Status of Europe's floodplains
- 3.1 Environmental importance of floodplains
- 3.2 Status of Europe’s floodplains: remaining areas and environmental quality
- 3.3 Anthropogenic Drivers and Pressures
- 3.4 Floodplain management and restoration
- 4 Policy developments and implementation
- 4.1 European policies influencing the management of floods and floodplains
- 4.2 Flood risk management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
- 4.3 Gaps in knowledge and policy integration
- 5 Conclusions
- 5.1 Data on floods and floodplains
- 5.2 Floodplains in Europe
- 5.3 Coordination of flood risk management with adjacent policy fields
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- References
Acronyms and abbreviations
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LIST OF ABREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS |
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APSFR |
Area of Potential Significant Flood Risk |
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BHDs |
Birds and Habitat Directives |
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CAP |
Common Agricultural Policy |
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CDDA |
Nationally designated (protected) areas |
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CIS |
Common Implementation Strategy |
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CLC |
Corine Land cover |
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DFO |
Dartmouth Flood Observatory |
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DPSIR |
Driving forces, Pressures, States, Impacts, Responses |
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EC |
European Commission |
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EFID |
European Flood Impact Database |
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EIA |
Environmental Impact Assessment |
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EM-DAT |
Emergency Events Database from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) |
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ES |
Ecosystem Service |
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ETC/CCA |
European Topic Centre on Climate Change impacts, vulnerability and Adaptation |
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ETC/ICM |
European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine water |
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EU |
European Union |
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EUSF |
European Union Solidarity Fund |
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FD |
Floods Directive |
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FHRM |
Flood Hazard and Risk Map |
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FRMP |
Flood Risk Management Plan |
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GES |
Good Ecological Status |
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GI |
Green Infrastructures |
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Geographic Information System |
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GNI |
Gross National Income |
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IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
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IRM |
Integrated Risk Management |
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IWT |
Inland Water Transport |
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JRC |
Joint Research Centre |
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MA |
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment |
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MAES |
Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services |
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MEA |
Multilateral Environmental Agreement |
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MFF |
Multiannual Financial Framework |
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MS |
Member State |
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NBMW |
Nature, biodiversity, marine and water (policies) |
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NGO |
Non-Governmental Organisation |
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NUTS |
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics |
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NWRM |
Natural Water Retention Measure |
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OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
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PFRA |
Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment |
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PoM |
Programme of Measures |
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PWS |
Payment for Watershed Services |
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RBD |
River Basin District |
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RBMP |
River Basin Management Plan |
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RDP |
Rural Development Plan |
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SEA |
Strategic Environmental Assessment |
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SRES |
Special Report on Emissions Scenarios |
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TEEB |
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity |
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UN |
United Nations |
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UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
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UNISDR |
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction |
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UoM |
Unit of Management |
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WB |
Water Body |
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WFD |
Water Framework Directive |
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WGF |
Working Group on Floods (under Common implementation strategy for the WFD and the FD) |
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