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2010 March 18th
NL: National Water Plan 2015 In December 2009, the Dutch Government adopted the National Water Plan (pdf-file, 31,3 MB). This... Read more 2010 March 6th
NL: Government decides: no flood insurance The Dutch government has decided not to introduce a public-private flood insurance in the... Read more 2010 January 27th
UK: Investing for the future Also in the UK, the latest climate change predictions indicate that flooding and coastal erosion... Read more 2009 February 2nd
UK: A new ICZM strategy for England Defra (UK) has now published an Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Strategy for England. The... Read more 2008 September 3rd
NL: "Delta Committee" advises large scale investments Today, the Government installed Deltacommittee has given its advice with respect to long term flood... Read more 2008 July 2nd
DVD "Living with the sea" is available for free The DVD "Living with the sea" gives you good insight on how coastal safety, in... Read more 2008 June 12th
Conference 'Risk meets Crisis' succesful On May 21st and 22nd the Interreg IIIb projects Safecoast and Chain of Safety organized a... Read more
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12-06-2008Conference 'Risk meets Crisis' succesfulOn May 21st and 22nd the Interreg IIIb projects Safecoast and Chain of Safety organized a successful joint final conference with the theme ‘Risk meets crisis’. This was the first time an international group op risk managers and crisis managers came together on the topic of coastal flooding.
The first day keynote speakers presented there view what these European projects have done within these region.
With the main outcomes of the projects a discussion was started to bring the two worlds of risk and crisis management together and to get a common understanding.
The second day gave more focus to the three items ‘Risk management’, ‘Crisis management’ and ‘Risk meets Crisis’ in parallel sessions.
All highlights of the two days can be found in this newsletter. Speeches and presentations can be found here. |