Flood Risk Management

Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures

By: Jochen Schanze, ?Evzen Zeman, ?Jiri Marsalek

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eText | 17 September 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Floods are of increasing public concerns world-wide due to increasing damages and unacceptable high numbers of injuries. Previous approaches of flood protection led to limited success especially during recent extreme events. Therefore, an integrated flood risk management is required which takes into consideration both the hydrometeorogical and the societal processes. Moreover, real effects of risk mitigation measures have to be critically assessed. The book draws a comprehensive picture of all these aspects and their interrelations. It furthermore provides a lot of details on earth observation, flood hazard modelling , climate change, flood forecasting, modelling vulnerability, mitigation measures and the various dimensions of management strategies. In addition to local and regional results of science, engineering and social science investigations on modelling and management, transboundary co-operation of large river catchments atre of interest. Based on this, the book is a valuable source of the state of the art in flood risk management and covers also future demands for research and practise in terms of flood issues.