Abstract:
Water based disasters are typical examples of
people living in conflict with the environment
considering that floods and droughts have enormous
environmental, social and economic consequences and it
is expected that climate change effects will exacerbate
their occurrence and impacts in the future. The
vulnerability of populated areas to water natural
disaster is partly a consequence of decades of spatial
planning policies that have failed to take adequate
account of hazards and risks in land use zoning and
development decisions. Therefore it is critically
important to develop more effective methodologies and
tools for incorporating water natural disaster reduction
into spatial planning. Meanwhile, management of these
events requires an integrated risk management
approach that includes prevention, preparedness,
response and recovery. Furthermore, education,
awareness-raising and communication to the general
public and economic actors are needed to allow them to
deal with transitions and change.
This paper is based on the outcomes results from the
bilateral project “Development of a Romanian National
Climate Adaptation Network (RONET-ADAPT)”,
project carried out by “Research within Priority
Sectors” Program financed by EEA Grants
