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In this article we will focus on the relevance of the nexus concept in the case of floods, with the aim of understanding what role water, food production and energy play in flood events, both in terms of potential driver of the risk itself and in terms of potentially affected systems. Water, energy and agriculture will be analysed as both potentially vulnerable targets and drivers of the flood hazard. In the final part of the chapter some general reflections related to the Nexus approach in general and its specific application in the Peri-Urban context to deal in particular with flood risk will be developed.
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The Author is grateful to the Umbria Region Civil Protection Authority for the data that were made available for this paper and for the ongoing fruitful collaboration. Results illustrated in this paper are partially the result of work carried out in the Know-4-drr project (FPVII, Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation—C.N. 603807) and in the ongoing Idea project (Improving Damage assessments to Enhance cost-benefit Analyses, G.A.N. ECHO/SUB/2014/694469).
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Menoni, S. (2017). Flood Risk Management and the Nexus Approach: A Preliminary Conceptual Overview Based on Case Studies. In: Colucci, A., Magoni, M., Menoni, S. (eds) Peri-Urban Areas and Food-Energy-Water Nexus. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41022-7_8
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