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The project is divided into five workpackages:

  1. Evaluation of the effectiveness of non-structural measures on runoff and erosion in upstream areas. Systematic compilation and presentation of flood reduction potentials of agriculture and forestry depending on infiltration effects und surface structure and their potential to reduce critical water levels and erosion loads.
    Lead: Saxon State Agency for Agriculture

  2. Research on the risk reduction potential of non structural landuse measures on floodlevel peaks as well as on soil, waters and harvest in flood areas. Quantification of hydraulic effects of landuse measures with regard to the flooding characteristics and the dynamics of harmful substances. Characterization of ecologic and economic damage potential of differentiated agricultural landuse practices.
    Lead: ZALF, Institute for Landscape Hydrology

  3. Analysis of administrative instruments to reduce flooding risk on the level of river catchment areas. Coverage and analysis of the cooperation practice between administrations in agriculture and water management with the aim to develop non structural measures; identification of the room for manoeuvre and the institutional barriers for flood water risk minimization by agricultural actors.
    Lead: ZALF, Institute for Socioeconomics

  4. Analysis of risk perception and awareness of actors in agriculture in upstream and flooding areas. Identification and analysis of problem awareness and risk perception of affected actors with regard towards a possible reduction of or increase in flooding risk by means of non-structural agricultural measures. Identification and analysis of actor specific decision logic based on subjectively perceived mitigative and motivative factors.
    Lead: University Hamburg, BIOGUM

  5. Summary and interdisciplinary evaluation of the actual state of knowledge. Evaluation of the risk and harm reducing effectiveness of agricultural and forestal measures within the scope of an integrated flooding risk management. Transdisciplinary development of optional strategies for flooding risk management in the agricultural and forestal sectors as well as elaboration of corresponding, target group specific argumentation and decision support.
    Lead: ZALF, Institute for Socioeconomics

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