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BOOKS and REPORTS

Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery thumbnail

Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery

How to design financial instruments in a flood recovery period and in the long run?  More

Spatial Flood Risk Management: Implementing Catchment-based Retention and Resilience on Private Land thumbnail

Spatial Flood Risk Management: Implementing Catchment-based Retention and Resilience on Private Land

The book calls for the interconnection of land policy instruments and flood risk management in Europe.  More

Review of Policy Instruments for Climate-Smart Mountain Forestry thumbnail

Review of Policy Instruments for Climate-Smart Mountain Forestry

What instruments can be used to implement climate-smart forestry in mountain areas of Europe?  More

STRIMAII: Saxon-Czech Flood Risk Management II thumbnail

STRIMAII: Saxon-Czech Flood Risk Management II

Vulnerability to floods, nature-based measures and importance of small water bodies  More

Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land thumbnail

Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land

What are the challenges of natural flood retention measure implementation on private land?  More

Methodology for Economic Assessment of Green and Blue Infrastructure in Human Settlements thumbnail

Methodology for Economic Assessment of Green and Blue Infrastructure in Human Settlements

A method of monetary valuation and comparison of costs and benefits of green and blue infrastructure.  More

Cost-effectiveness analysis of the water quality improvement in the Orlik reservoir thumbnail

Cost-effectiveness analysis of the water quality improvement in the Orlik reservoir

Report of the REFRESH project on the economic analysis of the eutrophication problem solution in large Czech reservoir Orlik.   More

From Government to Governance? New Governance for Water and Biodiversity in an Enlarged Europe thumbnail

From Government to Governance? New Governance for Water and Biodiversity in an Enlarged Europe

Book dealing with the environmental governance changes in post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe.   More

Managing Environmental Goods under the Global Change – Approaches and Methods thumbnail

Managing Environmental Goods under the Global Change – Approaches and Methods

Book focused on ecosystem service provision under various management schemes.   More

RESEARCH PAPERS

Mitigation of Concurrent Flood and Drought Risks Through Land Modifications: Potential and Perspectives of Land Users thumbnail

Mitigation of Concurrent Flood and Drought Risks Through Land Modifications: Potential and Perspectives of Land Users

The systematic review on land modifications for the flood and drought risk mitigation and motivations of land users to undertake these modifications.  More

Carsharing users’ behaviour and attitudes. The role of car availability in households thumbnail

Carsharing users’ behaviour and attitudes. The role of car availability in households

The article is devoted to the contribution of carsharing to pro-environmental behavior – it compares carsharing users who have their own car and those who do not.  More

Will COVID-19 accelerate telecommuting? A cross-country evaluation for Israel and Czechia thumbnail

Will COVID-19 accelerate telecommuting? A cross-country evaluation for Israel and Czechia

The article investigates the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on commuting and working from home and whether the effects differed between Czechia and Israel.  More

What benefits are the most important to you, your community, and society? Perception of ecosystem services provided by nature-based solutions thumbnail

What benefits are the most important to you, your community, and society? Perception of ecosystem services provided by nature-based solutions

This article conducts a review of 153 scientific publications, investigating ecosystem services provided by nature-based solutions and individual, community and society preferences for these services.  More

Costs of achieving emission limits in coal-burning power plants under the recent best available techniques regulation amendment: Evidence from national microeconomic data thumbnail

Costs of achieving emission limits in coal-burning power plants under the recent best available techniques regulation amendment: Evidence from national microeconomic data

Paper introduces an innovative approach to the economic assessment of proportionality in meeting emission standards  More

Balancing the interaction between urban regeneration and flood risk management – A cost benefit approach in Ústí nad Labem thumbnail

Balancing the interaction between urban regeneration and flood risk management – A cost benefit approach in Ústí nad Labem

In urban planning CBA can act as a decision support, rather than making, tool identifying gaps that need to be filled.  More

Exploring public preferences and preference heterogeneity for green and blue infrastructure in urban green spaces thumbnail

Exploring public preferences and preference heterogeneity for green and blue infrastructure in urban green spaces

Which form of green and blue infrastructure elements (nature-based or semi-natural) is preferred by residents of the medium-sized Czech city of Liberec?  More

Serious gaming in flood risk management thumbnail

Serious gaming in flood risk management

How serious gaming can contribute to ongoing discussions concerning the shift to more holistic and governance-based flood resilience perspectives?  More

Factors Affecting Governance Innovations for Ecosystem Services Provision: Insights From Two Self-Organized Forest Communities in Czechia And Slovakia thumbnail

Factors Affecting Governance Innovations for Ecosystem Services Provision: Insights From Two Self-Organized Forest Communities in Czechia And Slovakia

Analysis of the role of self-organized forest communities in innovative forest governance and sustainable forest ecosystem services provision.  More

Land Policy for Flood Risk Management—Toward a New Working Paradigm thumbnail

Land Policy for Flood Risk Management—Toward a New Working Paradigm

Recommendations for better flood risk mitigation via land use changes  More

Mixed-method approach incorporating Geographic information system (GIS) tools for optimizing collection costs and convenience of the biowaste separate collection thumbnail

Mixed-method approach incorporating Geographic information system (GIS) tools for optimizing collection costs and convenience of the biowaste separate collection

Construction of the economic model for the organic waste transport optimalization.  More

The Value of Urban Nature in Terms of Providing Ecosystem Services Related to Health and Well-Being: An Empirical Comparative Pilot Study of Cities in Germany and the Czech Republic. thumbnail

The Value of Urban Nature in Terms of Providing Ecosystem Services Related to Health and Well-Being: An Empirical Comparative Pilot Study of Cities in Germany and the Czech Republic.

How do city dwellers feel in urban greenery? How does this greenery affect their health and well-being? And what types of urban greenery do residents prefer the most?  More

Achieving Robust and Socially Acceptable Environmental Policy Recommendations: Lessons from Combining the Choice Experiment Method and Institutional Analysis Focused on Cultural Ecosystem Services thumbnail

Achieving Robust and Socially Acceptable Environmental Policy Recommendations: Lessons from Combining the Choice Experiment Method and Institutional Analysis Focused on Cultural Ecosystem Services

The article describes how the use of a combination of quantitative and qualitative scientific methods could contribute to the design of socially acceptable environmental policy recommendations.  More

Lessons learned from implementing the ecosystem services concept in urban planning thumbnail

Lessons learned from implementing the ecosystem services concept in urban planning

What is the experience with implementing the concept of ecosystem services in the practice of urban planning in 10 European cities?  More

Food Provision, Social Interaction or Relaxation: Which Drivers Are Vital to Being a Member of Community Gardens in Czech Cities? thumbnail

Food Provision, Social Interaction or Relaxation: Which Drivers Are Vital to Being a Member of Community Gardens in Czech Cities?

Why are city dwellers paticipating in urban gardeing and what motivates people to became a member of community garden?  More

Sustainable urban mobility: One definition, different stakeholders’ opinions thumbnail

Sustainable urban mobility: One definition, different stakeholders’ opinions

The paper analyzed attitudes and view of selected key actors on sustainable urban mobility, conditions for strategic transport planning and the main barriers to the implementation of transport measures.  More

Development and implementation of the concept of disproportionate costs in water management in Central Europe in the light of the EU WFD thumbnail

Development and implementation of the concept of disproportionate costs in water management in Central Europe in the light of the EU WFD

Approches to exemption justifications from the good water status according to Water Framework Directive  More

Public and community conservation of biodiversity - rivalry or cooperation? thumbnail

Public and community conservation of biodiversity - rivalry or cooperation?

What is the history and current evolution of land trusts in post-socialist reality in Czech Republic?  More

Approaches to state flood recovery funding in Visegrad Group Countries thumbnail

Approaches to state flood recovery funding in Visegrad Group Countries

Paper compares state flood recovery funding in the so-called Visegrad Group Countries (V4), i.e. Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, over the past 30 years of their democratic history.  More

Externalities in agriculture: How to include their monetary value in decision-making? thumbnail

Externalities in agriculture: How to include their monetary value in decision-making?

From an economic point of view, implementation of measures in agriculture in the South Moravian Region makes sense.  More

Improving the quality of life in cities using community gardens: from benefits for members to benefits for all local residents thumbnail

Improving the quality of life in cities using community gardens: from benefits for members to benefits for all local residents

How does community gardens improve the quality of life in cities not only of their members but also of other city residents?  More

Ústí nad Labem: Post-industrial Diamond thumbnail

Ústí nad Labem: Post-industrial Diamond

Unusual guide for not-just-tourists: All you need to know about city planning challenges!   More

Using Bayesian Networks to Assess Effectiveness of Phosphorus Abatement Measures under the Water Framework Directive thumbnail

Using Bayesian Networks to Assess Effectiveness of Phosphorus Abatement Measures under the Water Framework Directive

Paper uses a concept of Bayesian networks to find out whether the selected measures are sufficient to achieve the “good status”  More

Mayors and “their” land: Revealing approaches to flood risk management in small municipalities thumbnail

Mayors and “their” land: Revealing approaches to flood risk management in small municipalities

How Mayors of small municipalities perceive possibilities of municipal/local-based flood protection?  More

Impact assessment of Proposal for a Directive on the limitation of emissions from medium combustion plants – National impact assessment compared to the European impact estimate thumbnail

Impact assessment of Proposal for a Directive on the limitation of emissions from medium combustion plants – National impact assessment compared to the European impact estimate

The paper shows underestimation of European estimate of the costs induced by the MCP Directive based on SimTool approach.  More

Assessment of Disproportionate Costs According to the WFD: Comparison of Applications of two Approaches in the Catchment of the Stanovice Reservoir (Czech Republic) thumbnail

Assessment of Disproportionate Costs According to the WFD: Comparison of Applications of two Approaches in the Catchment of the Stanovice Reservoir (Czech Republic)

Paper compares Czech and German methodology for the disproportionate costs evaluation.  More

Special Issue Land for Flood Risk Management thumbnail

Special Issue Land for Flood Risk Management

Special issue of Journal of Flood Risk management dealing with coordination of land and flood risk managemenent.  More

Socio-demographic determinants of municipal waste generation: case study of the Czech Republic thumbnail

Socio-demographic determinants of municipal waste generation: case study of the Czech Republic

Are socio-demographic variables relevant factors of municipal waste generation?  More

The relationship between competition and efficiency of waste-collection services in the Czech Republic thumbnail

The relationship between competition and efficiency of waste-collection services in the Czech Republic

The role of the competition on the waste-collection market in the Czech Republic.  More

Territorial dimensions of agro-environmental measures and LFA in rural development policy in the Czech Republic thumbnail

Territorial dimensions of agro-environmental measures and LFA in rural development policy in the Czech Republic

Paper focused on agro-environmental subsidies impacts on the marginalized region development.   More

Do the variable charges really increase the effectiveness and economy of waste management? A case study of the Czech Republic thumbnail

Do the variable charges really increase the effectiveness and economy of waste management? A case study of the Czech Republic

Paper discussing different household waste charging schemes and their impact on recycling.   More

Contribution of Local Agenda 21 to Practical Implementation of Sustainable Development: The Case of the Czech Republic thumbnail

Contribution of Local Agenda 21 to Practical Implementation of Sustainable Development: The Case of the Czech Republic

Paper comparing the environmental performance of Czech municipalities participation in the Local Agenda 21 initiative.   More

Evaluating the Regulatory Burden: Pollutant Release and Transfer Reporting Costs thumbnail

Evaluating the Regulatory Burden: Pollutant Release and Transfer Reporting Costs

Paper on the evaluation of compliance costs of the regulation – the case of the integrated reporting of pollutant release and transfer.   More

Transforming European Water Governance? Participation and River Basin Management under the EU Water Framework Directive in 13 Member States thumbnail

Transforming European Water Governance? Participation and River Basin Management under the EU Water Framework Directive in 13 Member States

Paper comparing the public participation process in water planning in 13 European states.   More