Beschreibung
For many years a general thought was that flood risks can only be diminished by dykes and other spatial adaptation measures. But NSR projects such as FRAMES that elaborated on the Multi Layered Safety approach, show that these measures are not enough and recommended to improve crisis management and recovery for climate related floods. E.g.the impact of a flood is not known to relevant stakeholders and evacuation options are not well identified nor implemented. Floods such as in summer 2021 in NL, BE and DE further prove this.To improve, organisations active in crisis management face two challenges. First, flood risk perceptions and self-efficacy ofcitizens, organisations and politicians are low, resulting to the situation that the capacity and preparedness to act are also low. Second, evacuation planning and evacuation infrastructures many times don’t consider climate crises and there is little consideration for long-term resilience when recovering after a flood.Project partners want to increase the resilience of society and minimise the impact of flood crises by developing and implementing new approaches and routines focusing on behavioural change and improved infrastructure for crisis management organisations to act before, during and after a climate-induced pluvial or fluvial flood.Partners build on experiences from former EU projects and combine these with lessons learned from recent crises and the diversity in practices from the different crisis management structures in the NSR countries. During the project, good practices are developed with regional stakeholders and relevant target groups to induce the needed awareness and behavioural change. Action plans at relevant levels are developed as well as general frameworks that fit the whole NSR.By the end of the project the resilience of societies in the participating regions have increased considerably and organisations in the NSR have increased capacity for climate-induced flood management.