In Europe in recent years there has been recognition of the need to better understand the risk from groundwater flooding, due both to the occurrence of major flooding events clearly attributable to groundwater and the inclusion of groundwater flooding in European legislation. The case study of the city of Oxford on the River Thames floodplain in the United Kingdom is used to examine the mechanisms for groundwater flooding in urbanized floodplain settings and the options for mitigating this form of flooding.

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