Background

Inadequate flood management caused serious troubles in the past, among others the following points can be called critically:

• Lacking hazard information,
• isolated tacking of problems in regions and
• no interdisciplinary communication.

Experience made clear that the establishment of

• early warning-,
• precautionary measures- and
• decision support systems,

being developed and implemented within the SAFER Project, can successfully eradicate those trouble. This is crucial to SAFER as it forms a basic project objective: to reduce threat on humans and to minimize flood damage.

The close transnational co-operation within SAFER allows to develop efficient and transferable approaches. In doing so, there is also strong emphasis on regional and local involvement.