Review article" Assessment of economic flood damage"

B Merz, H Kreibich, R Schwarze… - Natural Hazards and …, 2010‏ - nhess.copernicus.org
Damage assessments of natural hazards supply crucial information to decision support and
policy development in the fields of natural hazard management and adaptation planning to …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of climate change on the domestic indoor environment and associated health risks in the UK

S Vardoulakis, C Dimitroulopoulou, J Thornes… - Environment …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
There is growing evidence that projected climate change has the potential to significantly
affect public health. In the UK, much of this impact is likely to arise by amplifying existing …

[ספר][B] Handbook of hazards and disaster risk reduction

B Wisner, JC Gaillard, I Kelman - 2012‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and
disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary …

Comparative flood damage model assessment: towards a European approach

B Jongman, H Kreibich, H Apel… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2012‏ - nhess.copernicus.org
There is a wide variety of flood damage models in use internationally, differing substantially
in their approaches and economic estimates. Since these models are being used more and …

An analysis of the causes and circumstances of flood disaster deaths

SN Jonkman, I Kelman - Disasters, 2005‏ - Wiley Online Library
The objective of this paper is to investigate and to improve understanding of the causes and
circumstances of flood disaster deaths. A standardised method of classifying flood deaths is …

Flood risk analyses—how detailed do we need to be?

H Apel, GT Aronica, H Kreibich, AH Thieken - Natural hazards, 2009‏ - Springer
Applied flood risk analyses, especially in urban areas, very often pose the question how
detailed the analysis needs to be in order to give a realistic figure of the expected risk. The …

What is nuisance flooding? Defining and monitoring an emerging challenge

HR Moftakhari, A AghaKouchak… - Water Resources …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Nuisance flooding (NF) refers to low levels of inundation that do not pose significant threats
to public safety or cause major property damage, but can disrupt routine day‐to‐day …

[ספר][B] Dam failure mechanisms and risk assessment

L Zhang, M Peng, D Chang, Y Xu - 2016‏ - books.google.com
This book integrates the physical processes of dam breaching and the mathematical aspects
of risk assessment in a concise manner• The first book that introduces the causes, processes …

[HTML][HTML] Brief communication: Impact forecasting could substantially improve the emergency management of deadly floods: case study July 2021 floods in Germany

H Apel, S Vorogushyn, B Merz - Natural Hazards and Earth …, 2022‏ - nhess.copernicus.org
Floods affect more people than any other natural hazard; thus flood warning and disaster
management are of utmost importance. However, the operational hydrological forecasts do …

Building treatments for urban flood inundation models and implications for predictive skill and modeling efficiency

JE Schubert, BF Sanders - Advances in Water Resources, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Urban areas are vulnerable to major flood damages due to the density of economic and
social assets, and there is increasing interest in localized flood intensity predictions to …