ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Flood risk management in cross-border areas can benefit from international river basin commissions that can set up and carry out river basin management directed at flood and water quality issues across borders. Thus single sided measures can be avoided and opportunities to harmonize cost recovery, spatial planning, public participation and communication pave the way to real cross border cooperation. The risk of floods, both the frequency as the gravity, is increasing with the gradual change of the climate. Transboundary governance and river basin wide management can contribute to damage prevention, reduction and mitigation of the negative effects of inundations. It is essential that experts and managers keep exchanging their experiences and knowledge of the river system.
