Innovative Tools and Strategies to Conciliate Floodplain Restoration Projects and Spatial Planning in France: the “Over-Flooding Easement” (original) (raw)

In France, flood management policies have strongly evolved since the 1990s. Flood mitigation has become a key strategy in order to contribute to the diversification and sustainability of flood risk management policies (Larrue et al., 2015). In this context, more and more river authorities launch and implement floodplain restoration and water retention projects locally in France. Like in most Western European countries, it is now taken for granted that flood management requires ‘‘making space’’ for water by increasing retention capacity of floodplains (Warner et al., 2012). However, in many European countries, floodplain restoration still proves to be a societal challenge (Moss, Monstadt, 2008) and rural land has an important role to play in flood mitigation (Morris et al., 2010).