Damage due to floods has increased during the last few decades, and further increases are
expected in several regions due to climate change and growing vulnerability. To address the …

Densely populated deltas are so vulnerable to sea level rise and climate change that they
cannot wait for global mitigation to become effective. The Netherlands therefore puts huge …

In Europe, water management is moving from flood defence to a risk management
approach, which takes both the probability and the potential consequences of flooding into …

Flood risks of deltaic areas increase because of population growth, economic development,
land subsidence and climatic changes such as sea-level rise. In this study, we analyze …

This study focuses on development and application of a new modeling approach for a
comprehensive flood hazard assessment along protected river reaches considering dike …

Vulnerability assessment is considered as a key step towards effective disaster risk
reduction. It is multi-dimensional, and its assessment is complicated due to the social …

The European Union Floods Directive requires the establishment of flood maps for high risk
areas in all European member states by 2013. However, the current practice of flood …

This paper aims to analyse and compare the loss of life that occurred during two recent
floods in France. The first flood was due to a sea surge triggered by the storm called Xynthia …

Flood risk of all types of flooding is projected to increase based on climate change
projections and increases in damage potential. These challenges are likely to aggravate …

Climate change and sea level rise urge low-lying countries to draft adaption policies. In this
context, we assessed whether, to what extent and when the Netherlands' current flood risk …