Our great book Voda ve městě (Water in the City) for municipalities and other investors aiming at sustainable stormwater harvesting was successfully crowdfunded. This is a great opportunity for us to re-pring the enlarged version and organize excursions and debates about this featured topic. 

Lenka Slavíková successfully finished her Fulbright scholarship. She shared her experiences in the short blog contribution titled Grapes must be crushed to make wine! Inspirative reading for all parents thinking about moving the big family abroad.

Together with 35 colleagues from 12 countries, the editorial team consisting of Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková and Simon McCarthy finallized the new book called Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land. 

Book was published by Springer as Open Access. Download it from here. 

In February 2020, IEEP team will co-organize the 14th annual conference of  the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR). Lenka Slavíková and Eliška Vejchodská got the hosting flag in February 2019 in Texas. Check more here: plpr2020.ujep.cz. 

Wednesday, 20. 6. from 13:00 (CET), there will be 60-minute broadcasting from the Riga workshop  focused on land and flood risk management issues (more about COST action LAND4FLOOD here). 

Webinar is organized under the supervison of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA). Lenka Slavíková, executive director of IEEP, is one of the panelist. More about webinar here. 

Why land matters for flood risk management? Because the quality of soil affects floods (and droughts)? Because land is in someone’s ownership? 

Watch the interview video of the LAND4FLOOD COST Action addressing these questions.

The special issue of the Journal of Flood Risk Management 1/2018 Land for Flood Risk Management: A catchment-wide and multi-level perspective has been published. 

Jiřina Jílková served as its co-editor. Together with Jan Macháč and Lenka Slavíkova, two papers co-authored by IEEP members are included in the special issue. 

Impact Factor of the journal is 3.121 (being in Q1 of Water Resources). 

In January – February 2018, the winter part of the bilateral Czech-Austrian course Energy & Society was organized in Prague in cooperation with Czech Technical University and University of Economics. 

The 13th year was inspired with the interactive form of teaching using experimental desing and discussions. Students visited small water power plant in Mirejovice and the coal power plant in Melnik. 

The second part of the course will be held during summer in Vienna. In the meantime, bilateral Czech-Austrian teams develop common theses and looking forward to their second meeting. 

Together with the Department of Regional Development and Public Administration and the Department of Geography, the IEEP organizes the international conference Social And Economic Development & Regional Policy: Adaptation Of Post-Industrial Society To Global Changes. The conference is under the supervission of the Regional Studies Association. 

Conference dates: 27th – 28th June 2018. Abstract submission until: 31st March 2018. More info: here.