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Shifting from asset damage to well-being loss within flood risk management
(2021)Floods can be a cause of poverty. Poverty itself magnifies the impact of floods as poor people are more vulnerable and less resilient. Traditional flood risk assessments (FRAs) focus mostly on asset damages. Yet, poor ... -
Sponge cities and sustainable drainage systems: sharing best practice in China and the UK
(2021)Flooding from rivers, surface water and the sea is a major hazard in many cities of the world and is expected to increase in the future due to climate change. With funding from the UK-China Urban Flooding Research Impact ... -
The failure probability of grass erosion due to wave overtopping. A case study of the Afsluitdijk, The Netherlands
(2021)Wave overtopping is one of main failure mechanism of flood protective structures. Experiments and numerical simulations have shown that transitions are weak spots for cover erosion. Transitions in geometry and in bed ... -
The four components to combine flood protection with other functions
(2021)Multifunctional flood defence systems combine flood defence functions with elements in the flood protection zone that fulfil other functions like nature, housing or agriculture. The wide range in possible combinations of ... -
The new French regulation on flood protection works: consequences on risk management
(2021)Following recent catastrophic floods, France issued in 2007 a first regulation on the safety of dams and levees. In 2014 a new competence has been attributed to local authorities: the management of aquatic environments and ... -
The potential of reservoirs for both flood control and irrigation in the Sebou River (Morocco)
(2021)Protecting the population and property against floods is one of the Moroccan National Water Plan priorities. Indeed, based on the National Flood Protection Plan established in 2002 and updated in 2017, 1,032 vulnerable ... -
The use of historic flood events to reduce uncertainty in future flood frequency predictions: a bootstrap method
(2021)Flood frequency relations are generally highly uncertain for large return times due to the relatively short data set of annual maximum discharges. This extrapolation uncertainty can be decreased by extending the data set ... -
The Vulnerability of Damaged River and Lake Dikes for Wave Overtopping
(2021)Wave overtopping results in erosion of grass-covered flood defenses which can result in a dike breach. Damages to the dike cover decrease the cover strength and simultaneously increase the hydraulic load on the dike cover. ... -
The “Flood Damage Models” repository
(2021)Flood damage assessment is a quite recent topic in flood risk management, nevertheless, several tools are now available for flood damage estimation which are characterised by different levels of robustness and reliability, ... -
Uncertainty estimate of flood hazard for an extreme flood
(2021)Hydrodynamic models are usually calibrated from historical events observations and then used for estimating the flood hazard for more extreme floods. In such a case, the uncertainty related to the calibration process is ... -
Understanding flood vulnerability of buildings in US: A perspective through claims data
(2021)The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is the largest provider of flood insurance to residential homes and small businesses in the United States for the last 50 years. This study leverages 40 years of data from the ... -
Web and App-based management of flood emergency plans at local entities level
(2021)Different types of floods are frequently causing important economic and personal damages in a variety of locations within Navarre, a region located in northern Spain. Navarre is found very close to the Cantabrian sea, but ...