Land use planning and management for flood risk management

his chapter is an exploration of the reasons people settle in areas exposed to flood and therefore how land use planning and management can help alleviate flood risk in urban areas. Regarding the former, the chapter analyses the complex socio-economic and political dynamics within flood-prone areas. To this end, it focuses on the vicious cycle of the ‘control paradox’, a false sense of security resulting from overreliance on flood defence, and its role in maintaining flood risk in society. Land use planning and management can break this cycle through a number of strategies that support a shift in flood risk management discourse towards planning and making more room for water. Finally, the authors argue that there is scope for new research on the role that land value capture instruments can play in mainstreaming the implementation of blue and green infrastructure in urban areas in an efficient, legitimate and socially just way.