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Flanders: Regional Organization of Water and Drought
and Using Data as Driver for Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Jenny Tröltzsch, Rodrigo Vidaurre, Hans Bressers,
Alison Browne, Isabelle La Jeunesse, Maia Lordkipanidze,
Willem Defloor, Willem Maetens and Kris Cauwenberghs
7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
7.2 The Regional Organization of Drought Management:
Flemish Water Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
7.2.1
Water Management in Flanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
7.2.2
Evolution of Flanders’ Water Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
7.3 The Flemish Geo-hydrological Context: Using Data
for Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
7.3.1
Drought in the Context of Water Management
in Flanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
7.3.2
To Measure Is to Know: A Framework
for Drought Monitoring and Modelling . . . . . . . . . . . 145
7.3.3
Turning Data into Information and Cooperation . . . . . 148
7.4 Governance Assessment: Improvements in Drought
Awareness but not There yet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.4.1
Extent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.4.2
Coherence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
7.4.3
Flexibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
7.4.4
Intensity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
7.4.5
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
7.5 Improving Drought Governance in Flanders: Conclusions
and Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.5.1
Overall Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.5.2
Increasing Awareness for Droughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
7.5.3
Mainstreaming Drought Risks and Preparedness . . . . . 156
7.5.4
Engagement with Other Public Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
7.5.5
Evaluate the Importance of Data Availability
Gaps and Prioritize Which to Address . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
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Drought Awareness Through Agricultural Policy:
Multi-level Action in Salland, The Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Gül Özerol, Jenny Troeltzsch, Corinne Larrue,
Maia Lordkipanidze, Alison L. Browne, Cheryl de Boer
and Pieter Lems
8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
8.2 Water Management in the Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
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