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Katerina Charalambous, Adriana Bruggeman, Elias Giannakis and Christos Zoumides
Public participation is integrated in the European Floods Directive to ensure engagement of societal actors in selecting and accepting measures. This study assesses the Directive?s public participation process and provides recommendations for its improve...
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Adrian Schmid-Breton, Gesa Kutschera, Ton Botterhuis and The ICPR Expert Group ?Flood Risk Analysis? (EG HIRI)
To determine the effects of measures on flood risk, the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR), supported by the engineering consultant HKV has developed a method and a GIS-tool named “ICPR FloRiAn (Flood Risk Analysis)&rdq...
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Ranko Pudar, Jasna Plav?ic and Andrijana Todorovic
Floods cause considerable damages worldwide and mitigation of their adverse effects through effective protection measures is needed. Along with the commonly applied ?grey? infrastructure, ?green? measures that can offer additional benefits, such as ecosy...
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Zoran Vojinovic, Weeraya Keerakamolchai, Sutat Weesakul, Ranko S. Pudar, Neiler Medina and Alida Alves
The present paper describes a methodological framework that combines ecosystem services (flood protection, education, art/culture, recreation and tourism) with economic analysis for selection of multifunctional measures for flood resilience. The framewor...
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Juliana Mendes and Rodrigo Maia
This paper describes the process of analysis and verification of ensemble inflow forecasts to the multi-purpose reservoir of Aguieira, located in the Mondego River, in the center of Portugal. This process was performed to select and validate the referenc...
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Matthew Oakley, Sam Mohun Himmelweit, Paul Leinster and Mónica Rivas Casado
Despite the significant financial and non-financial costs of household flooding, and the availability of products that can reduce the risk or impact of flooding, relatively few consumers choose to adopt these products. To help explain this, we combine th...
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Demlie G. Zelelew and Assefa M. Melesse
Estimation of runoff is vital forplanning activities in relation to integrated watershed management and flood protection measures. This research was conducted at one of the catchments in Abbay River (upper Blue Nile River) basin to assess the applicabili...
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Thorsten Schuetze and Lorenzo Chelleri
Urbanized delta areas worldwide share a growing tendency of exposure to water stress induced by the effects of climate change and anthropogenic factors, threatening the operation of infrastructure systems and future urban development. The important syner...
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Enwere Chidimma Loveline
Pág. 177 - 184
Wetlands perform a wide variety of functions that include flood control, ground water recharge, shore line stabilization, storm protection and climate moderation. However, despite these huge wetland functions, it has witnessed poor appreciation and...
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Shubhankar Sengupta, Dmitry V. Kovalevsky, Laurens M. Bouwer and Jürgen Scheffran
Coastal flood risk and sea-level rise require decisions on investment in coastal protection and, in some cases, the relocation of urban areas. Models that formalize the relations between flooding costs, protective investments, and relocation can improve ...
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Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Rashid Farooq and Nick van de Giesen
All over the world, probability-based flood protection designs are the ones most commonly used. Different return-period design floods are standard criteria for designing structural measures. Recently, risk-based flood management has received a significan...
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Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Floods are the most devastating of global natural disasters, and flood adaptation measures are needed to reduce future risk. Researchers have started to evaluate the costs and benefits of flood adaptation, but information regarding the cost of different ...
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Robert Sitzenfrei, Jonatan Zischg, Markus Sitzmann and Peter M. Bach
Traditional (technical) concepts to ensure a reliable water supply, a safe handling of wastewater and flood protection are increasingly criticised as outdated and unsustainable. These so-called centralised urban water systems are further maladapted to up...
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Ashraf Abdelkarim and Ahmed F.D. Gaber
This study aims to assess the impact of flash floods in the Wadi Nu?man basin on urban areas, east of Mecca, which are subjected to frequent floods, during the period from 1988?2019. By producing and analyzing the maps of the regions, an integrated appro...
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Bojan Ðurin, Lucija Plantak, Ognjen Bonacci and Fabio Di Nunno
Forecasting upstream flow amount based on downstream flow values is a new way of managing flood risk. This kind of prediction of the flow, size, and intensity of rivers in the alluvial aquifers is, in most cases, a challenging task due to climate change,...
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Izabela Maria Burda and Lucyna Nyka
Waterfront areas in cities are subject to constant changes. The desire to integrate the transformed waterside areas with the urban fabric involves shaping high-quality public spaces related to water, which are often referred to as urban blue spaces (UBS)...
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Md. Sazzad Ansari, Jeroen Warner, Vibhas Sukhwani and Rajib Shaw
Bangladesh, a flat densely populated country in a dynamic delta, is vulnerable to recurring flood disasters. Various types of structural and non-structural flood risk reduction interventions have been implemented over the years to safeguard the people an...
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Alessandro Allodi, Letizia Angelo, Fabio Bordini, Monica Branchi, Elisa Comune, Mauro Del Longo, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mauro Noberini, Filippo Pizzera, Alessio Pugliese, Giuseppe Ricciardi, Fabrizio Tonelli, Franca Tugnoli and Enrica Zenoni
Water is a fundamental resource for human life and nature; flood management, water supply systems and water protection policies are a few examples of equally important disciplines across the whole hydrological cycle. The present work focuses on the creat...
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Leonardo Souza Bruno, Tiago Souza Mattos, Paulo Tarso Sanches Oliveira, André Almagro and Dulce Buchala Bicca Rodrigues
In flood area mapping studies, hydrological-hydraulic modeling has been successfully applied around the world. However, the object of study of most of the research developed in Brazil is medium to large channels that use topographical and hydrometeorolog...
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Syed Imran Ahmed, Ramesh Rudra, Pradeep Goel, Alamgir Khan, Bahram Gharabaghi and Rohit Sharma
Ascertaining the spatiotemporal accuracy of precipitation is a challenge for hydrologists and planners for flood protection measures. The objective of this study was to compare streamflow simulations using rain gauge and radar data from a watershed in So...
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