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European Projects dealing with resilience, vulnerability and capacity building:

AQUARIUS
Farmers as water managers in the North Sea Region
http://www.aquarius-nsr.eu/Aquarius.htm
CLIMWATADAPT
Climate Adaptation: modelling water scenarios and sectoral impacts
http://ecologic.eu/3586
EcoRegion
Develop the Baltic Sea Region into the world's first EcoRegion
www.baltic-ecoregion.eu
ENSURE
Enhancing Resilience of Communities and Territories facing Natural and Na-tech hazards
http://www.ensureproject.eu/
KFM
Regionales Management von Klimafolgen in der Metropolregion Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-(Wolfsburg) [In German]
http://www.klimafolgenmanagement.de/?pgid=119
IMRA
Integrative flood risk governance approach for improvement of risk awareness and increased public participation.
http://www.imra.cnr.it/
NoLimp
NOrth Sea Regional and Local IMPlementation
http://www.nolimp.org/
http://www.noregret.info/
SAWA
Strategic Alliance for Integrated Water Management Actions
http://www.sawa-project.eu/
MATRIX
New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for Europe
http://matrix.gpi.kit.edu/index.php
MOVE
Methods for the improvement of vulnerability assessment in Europe
http://www.move-fp7.eu/
NeWater
New Approaches to Adaptive Wanter Management under Uncertainty
http://www.newater.info/
POLICYMIX
Assessing the role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision
http://policymix.nina.no/
PREEMPT
Policy-relevant assessment of economic and social effects of hydro-meteorological disasters
http://www.feem-project.net/preempt/

Projects dealing with floods

CORFU
Collaborative research on Flood Resilience in Urban Areas
http://www.corfu7.eu/
DIANE-CM
Decentralised Integrated ANalysis and Enhancement of Awareness through Collaborative Modelling and Management of Flood Risk
http://www.leuphana.de/en/mariele-evers/forschung-projekte/diane-cm.html
FIM FRAME
Flood Incident Management - A FRAMEwork for improvement
http://www.fimframe.net/index.html
FLOODsite
: Integrated Flood Risk Analysis and Management Methodologies
http://www.floodsite.net
FREEMAN
Flood REsilience Enhancement and MANagement: a pilot study in Flanders, Germany and Italy
http://www.feem-project.net/FREEMAN/index.php
IMPRINTS
Improving Preparedness and Risk Management for Flash Floods and Debris Flow Events
http://imprints-fp7.eu/
RISK MAP
Improving Flood Risk Maps as a Means to Foster Public Participation and Raising Flood Risk Awareness: Toward Flood Resilient Communities.
http://www.risk-map.org/
SUFRI
Sustainable Strategies of Urban Flood Risk Management with non-structural Measures to cope with the Residual Risk
http://www.sufri.tugraz.at/
UR-FLOOD
Understanding Uncertainty and Risk in communicating about floods
http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/urflood/index.php

 

Projects dealing with drought and water scarcity

AQUASTRESS
Mitigation of Water Stress through new Approaches to Integrating Management, Technical, Economic and Institutional Instruments
http://www.aquastress.net/
CIRCE
Climate Change and Impact Research: the Mediterranean Envronment
http://www.circeproject.eu/
Klimzug
Managing climate change in the regions for the future
http://www.klimzug.de/en/index.php
XEROCHORE
An Exercise to Assess Research Needs and Policy Choices in Areas of Drought
http://www.feem-project.net/xerochore/
WATER CoRe
Water scarcity and droughts; coordinated actions in European regions
http://www.watercore.eu

Useful documents

Renter's and Homeowner's Guide to Flooding
Floods are very common in the US. This report made by Renter's Insurance explains what to do before, during and after the flood event.
http://www.rentersinsurance.com/renters-homeowners-guide-to-flooding


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