Hydrometeorological risks are the most important natural hazard in the world. Among them, flood risk is the one that affects more population and causes the greatest damages. Their mitigation and adaptation to the impact ...

Over the last 30 years large floods have occurred in Central Europe, causing multi-billion euros of losses. There were floods on the rivers Rhine (1991,1993), Odra (1997, 1998), Vistula (2001, 2010), Tisa (2001), and Elbe ...

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 ...

This theoretical paper takes an aesthetic view of leadership to investigate the leadership needed to make cities more resilient. It sees an urban system as a complex, evolving entity constantly crossed by a variety of ...

Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) have been used for decades to support a variety of objectives in coastal and fluvial systems. Coastal and fluvial restoration projects have been used in Europe, the United States ...

Flood retention basins are widely applied to improve flood safety. The effectiveness of such basins is more sensitive for (hydrologic) uncertainties compared to other flood protection measures. This paper shows how uncertainty ...

Flooding is a ubiquitous and frequent hazard in Central Europe in both low-lying river valleys and off the floodplains. Recent record-breaking inland floods, such as the Central European floods of 2013, are a stark reminder ...

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 foothill of the Black Forest, east of the river Rhine in the north of Basle, has a high potential for soil erosion hazards because of its topography and geology in combination with its land use. The district of Lörrach ...

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 ...