Table of Contents

Introduction: financial schemes for resilient flood recovery 1. Measuring social equity in flood recovery funding 2. Approaches to state flood recovery funding in Visegrad Group Countries 3. Financial recovery schemes in Austria: how planned relocation is used as an answer to future flood events 4. The French Cat’ Nat’ system: post-flood recovery and resilience issues 5. An assessment of best practices of extreme weather insurance and directions for a more resilient society 6. Disaster, relocation, and resilience: recovery and adaptation of Karamemedesane in Lily Tribal Community after Typhoon Morakot, Taiwan, Environmental Hazards 7. Post-disaster communalism: land use, ownership, and the shifting ‘publicness’ of urban space in recovery 8. Prospects for disaster management in China and the role of insurance

About the Author

Lenka Slavíková is Associate Professor in public economics at J.E. Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She specializes in water and biodiversity governance with the focus on Central and Eastern European Countries. She investigates flood risk perception of household and municipalities and financial instruments to achieve flood resilience.

Thomas Hartmann is Associate Professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and he teaches at J.E. Purkyně University, Ústí and Laben, Czech Republic, and Bonn University, Germany. He combines an engineering perspective with socio-political approaches to flood risk management and land policies and has published numerous papers, books, and special issues on these topics.

Thomas Thaler is Research Fellow at the Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. He focuses on design and effectiveness of natural hazard governance systems as well as integrating European environmental policies into national and local institutions.