Flood risk governance in Slovakia: will we get change?

The aim of the paper is to apply the analytical framework of the EU-FP7 STAR-FLOOD project to analyse flood risk governance in Slovakia and to answer the question whether the change of the social and political system in Slovakia in 1989 as well as the ongoing climate change and the change of the flood risk paradigm has somehow been reflected in the governance flood risk. Despite many impulses for change, the analysis has shown that centralized flood risk governance by the state persists and the strategy of flood protection through technical flood infrastructure dominates in Slovakia. However it is argued that, this type of flood risk governance is unsustainable in the long term and some decentralization and diversification of flood risk governance is required to increase the societal resilience to flood risk and adapt to climate change.