Climate Change and Flood Risk Management

Edited by E.Carina H. Keskitalo, Professor of Political Science, Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, Sweden

• Contents:1. Introduction. Local Organisation to Address Flood Risks: Possibilities for Adaptation to Climate Change?E. Carina H. Keskitalo2. Adaptive Capacity Building in Saxony: Responses in Planning and Policy to the 2002 FloodGregor Vulturius and E. Carina H. Keskitalo3. Flood Risks Along the Torne River between Sweden and FinlandE. Carina H. Keskitalo, Jenny Åkermark and Joonas Vola4. A History of Flood Management Strategies in Canada RevisitedDan Shrubsole5. Policy Change and Policy Learning for Enhanced Flood Policies at Local, Subnational and EU LevelGregor Vulturius6. Cumberland House in the Saskatchewan River Delta: Flood Memory and the Municipal Response, 2005 and 2011Merle Massie and Maureen G. Reed7. Experiences with an Arctic River – Flood Prevention in the Town of IvaloTerhi Vuojala-Magga and Minna Turunen8. Flooding and the Carrot River Watershed Source Water Protection Plan, Saskatchewan: Civic Engagement and Causal StoriesMerle Massie9. Dutch Approaches to Flood Risks: Developments in Integrative Water Management and the Synchronization of Public and Private Agendas for Climate Adaptation in the NetherlandsPeter Scholten10. Conclusion: Flood Management and Adaptation – Viewing Flood Events in ContextE. Carina H. KeskitaloIndex