Ecoflood Guidelines: How to Use Floodplains for Flood Risk Reduction

This publication is the result of a combined effort by the consortium members from the "Ecoflood Project : Towards natural flood reduction strategies" which has been funded in the context of the Environment and Sustainable Development RTD programme (EC contract EVK1-CT-2002-80017). It is the product of three main events held during the project : - The Ecoflood International Conference : Towards natural flood reduction strategies, 6-13 September 2003, Warsaw, Poland. – The Ecoflood International Stakeholder Workshop : Practical constraints and opportunities, 23-24 January 2004, Delft, The Netherlands. – The Ecoflood Thinktank Meeting, 28-30 June 2004, Egham, UK. The main objective of these guidelines is to promote the use of floodplains as natural flood defence measures, while at the same time optimising other compatible functions and values through conservation and restoration.