Thomas Thaler Author & Editor

Lenka Slavíková is Associate Professor in public economics at J.E. Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She specializes in water and biodiversity governance with the focus on Central and Eastern European Countries. She investigates flood risk perception of household and municipalities and financial instruments to achieve flood resilience.

Thomas Hartmann is Associate Professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and he teaches at J.E. Purkyně University, Ústí and Laben, Czech Republic, and Bonn University, Germany. He combines an engineering perspective with socio-political approaches to flood risk management and land policies and has published numerous papers, books, and special issues on these topics.

Thomas Thaler is Research Fellow at the Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. He focuses on design and effectiveness of natural hazard governance systems as well as integrating European environmental policies into national and local institutions.