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Very often a city’s current layout with its existing infrastructure and settlements may hinder the implementation of measures like floodplain widening and de-culverting of urban streams. The complexity and financial burden commonly related to major maintenance and upgrading works on the urban drainage network can also constrain a city’s scope of action. However, the increased frequency and intensity of flood events will continue to call for disaster risk reduction measures in many European cities. In situations where an increase in flood protection is necessary, but the room for action within the city’s boundaries is limited, combining inner-city measures with planning at the larger scale to include nature-based solutions in upstream areas can be an alternative. The measures taken to increase resilience in the city of Leuven, historically challenged by flooding, gives a good example of this.

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