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Saturday, October 11th 2008 - TOURS (France)
Conference : The European Freude am Fluss project and flood risk management in the Middle Loire
| Welcome to the website of the European Freude am Fluss project |
The European project Freude am Fluss stands for a new approach to flood risk management of major rivers embanked with dykes: Live with water and leave room for the river instead of fighting it.
This entirely new way of thinking relies on two main courses of action which interact with each other:
- Development of innovative techniques to make housing projects, land use and other human activity in flood-prone areas along rivers flood tolerant
- Development of a Joint Planning Approach for river management, so that measures taken will leave room for local ingenuity and entrepreneurship, with genuine involvement of local stakeholders
Naturally, a new way of thinking like this raises new concerns and challenges. The Freude am Fluss answer to these concerns and challenges is international cooperation.
Taking part in this truly European project are universities, governmental and water authorities, local communities, and public organizations from France, Germany and the Netherlands. Their combined experience, knowledge and ideas is being applied in model cases along the rivers Loire, Rhine, Waal and Meuse.
In short, the Freude am Fluss concept aims to fundamentally change the way our river basins are being managed.
Now explore our interactive Freude am Fluss film and learn more about the FaF project.