Flood Risk Management in Europe

by Begum, Selina; Stive, Marcel J. F.; Hall, James W.

• ISBN13: 9781402041990
• ISBN10: 1402041993
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-04
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

In recent years major floods have occurred across Europe causing serious damages and huge financial implications. Flood risk and vulnerability is increasing with increased frequency of occurrence of extreme events due to climate change, changes in land-use, encroachment into floodplains and increasing economic value of assets and businesses. Human lives, property, environment and socio-economics are at increasing risk due to flooding. Recent alarming events in Central Europe, UK and The Netherlands have provided renewed impetus to the development of improved policies and techniques for flood risk management across Europe. Sharing of knowledge and understanding of the practical problems, dilemmas and challenges will aid in the development and implementation of new technologies and strategies of the challenging issues of flood risk management in Europe.This valuable edition brings together 25 peer reviewed articles on technical, socio-economic, environmental and policy aspects of flood risk management. These articles contribute to the five sections with the general themes: i) flood risk management practice, ii) flood events and impacts, iii) flood analysis and modelling iv) flood forecasting and v) flood risk management policy. Some emerging technologies are presented and several future challenges are identified. Thus the book Flood Risk Management in Europe: Innovation in Policy and Practice with a multi-disciplinary combination of articles will form an excellent reference for the engineers, scientists, planners, policy-makers, researchers, insurance industry and all the practitioners involved in flood risk management. This book is also recommended for graduate students in flood risk management and its sub-disciplines in engineering, hydrology, environmental studies, coastal management, economics and public policy.

Table of Contents

Decision-making for flood-threatened properties	p. 3
The influence of floodplain compartmentalization on flood risk within the Rhine-Meuse delta	p. 21
OSIRIS - an example of citizen-oriented technology development in the area of dissemination of information on flood risk management	p. 43
Evolving concepts in flood risk management : searching for a common language	p. 61
COMRISK - a transnational project of public authorities on coastal risk management	p. 77
Dike investigations using geophysical methods - techniques for the future?	p. 89
The environmental impact of flooding of the Dutch 'Delta-Metropole'	p. 107
Structural economic effects of large-scale inundation	p. 131
A method to estimate loss of life caused by large-scale floods in the Netherlands	p. 155
Automation of rood contingency plans	p. 171
The IMPACT European research project on flood propagation in urban areas : experimental and numerical modelling of the influence of buildings on the flow	p. 191
Sustainable development and flood risk - reducing uncertainty (Bristol city re-development case study)	p. 213
Flood risk mapping at the local scale : concepts and challenges	p. 231
Flood modelling and the August 2002 flood in the Czech Republic	p. 253
Seasonal rainfall and flow trends within three catchments in south-west England	p. 275
Propagation of discharge uncertainty in a flood damage model for the Meuse River	p. 293
A stochastic model for simulating long time series of river-mouth discharge and sediment load	p. 311
Forecasting flash floods with an operational model	p. 335
Flood forecasting for the upper and Middle Odra River basin	p. 353
Flood forecasting in the Anglian region	p. 385
Flood forecasting model selection	p. 401
Numerical modelling in coastal flood forecasting and warning in England and Wales	p. 417
Reflections on the challenges of EU policy-making with view to flood risk management	p. 433
On the flood risk in the Netherlands	p. 469
Planning for river induced floods in urban areas	p. 485
Interregional and transnational co-operation in river basins - chances to improve flood risk management?	p. 505
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