Shifts in Floods Policies in Netherlands

Abstract

On 15 January 2015 there was a conference organised at the French National Assembly by the Cercle Français de l'Eau with the inspiring title ‘Water management: should we get inspired by our European neighbors?’ This paper builds on the presentation given by Marleen van Rijswick at that conference in which she discussed shifts in Dutch flood risk policies. The presentation was inspired by research of Dutch academics working in an international team of six EU Member States on the way these countries deal with flood risk management, the STARFLOOD project (see for research results: www.starflood.eu).