With rapid population growth and socioeconomic development over the last century, a great
number of dams/reservoirs have been constructed globally to meet various needs. China …

Flood risk assessments require different disciplines to understand and model the underlying
components hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. Many methods and data sets have been …

Assessing long-term trends in flood losses and attributing them to climatic and
socioeconomic changes requires comprehensive and systematic collection of historical …

Private precautionary measures play an increasingly important role in flood risk
management. The degree to which private precautionary measures mitigate flood risk …

Understanding the influence of climate change on past extreme weather impacts is a vital
research task. However, the effects of climate change are obscured in the observed impact …

Flood losses have steadily increased in the past and are expected to grow even further
owing to climate and socioeconomic change. The reduction of flood vulnerability, for …

For the development of sustainable, efficient risk management strategies for the hydrological
extremes of droughts and floods, it is essential to understand the temporal changes of …

Current research on flooding risk often focuses on understanding hazards, de-emphasizing
the complex pathways of exposure and vulnerability. We investigated the use of both …

Residential assets, comprising buildings and household contents, are a major source of
direct flood losses. Existing damage models are mostly deterministic and limited to particular …

Flood risk assessments are typically based on scenarios which assume homogeneous
return periods of flood peaks throughout the catchment. This assumption is unrealistic for …