Flood Risk Management in Europe

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 26 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.

Audience

This book will be of interest to engineers, scientists, planners, policy-makers, researchers, insurance industry and all the practitioners involved in flood risk management, and its sub-disciplines in engineering, hydrology, environmental studies, coastal management, economics and public policy.

Inhalt
Flood Risk Management Practice.- Decision-Making for Flood-Threatened Properties.- The Influence of Floodplain Compartmentalization on Flood Risk Within the Rhine-Meuse Delta.- Osiris an Example of Citizen-Oriented Technology Development in the area of Dissemination of Information on Flood Risk Management.- Evolving Concepts in Flood Risk Management: Searching for a Common Language.- Comrisk A transnational project of public authorities on coastal risk management.- Dike Investigations Using Geophysical Methods Techniques for the Future?.- Flood Events and Impacts.- The Environmental Impact of Flooding of The Dutch 'Delta-Metropole'.- Structural Economic Effects of Large-Scale Inundation.- A Method to Estimate Loss of Life Caused by Large-Scale Floods in the Netherlands.- Automation Of Flood Contingency Plans.- Flood Analysis and Modelling.- The Impact European Research Project on Flood Propagation in Urban Areas: Experimental and Numerical Modelling of the Influence of Buildings on the Flow.- Sustainable Development and Flood Risk Reducing Uncertainty (Bristol City Re-Development Case Study).- Flood Risk Mapping At The Local Scale: Concepts and Challenges.- Flood Modelling and the August 2002 Flood in the Czech Republic.- Seasonal Rainfall and Flow Trends Within Three Catchments in South-West England.- Propagation of Discharge Uncertainty in a Flood Damage Model For the Meuse River.- A Stochastic Model for Simulating Long Time Series of River-Mouth Discharge and Sediment Load.- Flood Forecasting.- Forecasting Flash Floods with an Operational Model.- Flood Forecasting for the Upper and Middle Odra River Basin.- Flood forecasting in the anglian region.- Flood Forecasting Model Selection.- Numerical Modelling in Coastal Flood Forecasting and Warning inEngland and Wales.- Flood Risk Management Policy.- Reflections on the Challenges of Eu Policy-Making with View to Flood Risk Management.- On the Flood Risk in the Netherlands.- Planning for River Induced Floods in Urban Areas.- Interregional and Transnational Co-Operation in River Basins Chances To Improve Flood Risk Management?.