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 ...

Land management is often addressed as a secondary matter in flood prevention, but should be given more attention. Land is a crucial factor in how societies and communities cope with changing flood risk, so policies must ...

A number of evacuation models exist in literature, but investigations of their operational aspects and efficient implementation are rare. The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the operational aspect of pedestrian ...

This paper presents a model based on the combination of two simple conceptual sub-models, one for hydrology and one for hydraulics, which is capable of representing the discharges of large river basins with significant ...

Flash-flood events can have catastrophic socio-economic consequences. To reduce their impacts, it is of crucial importance to set up efficient warning systems. Although first operational flash-flood warning systems have ...

The resilience of levee systems is intuitively associated with physical and technical measures applied to aide in the recovery or adaptation after a destructive event. However, facing a hazard whose characteristics are ...

In recent years, German cities have been heavily impacted by pluvial flooding, causing for example losses of ~€70 million in Münster (2014) and ~€60 million in Potsdam and Berlin (2017). Additionally, pluvial flood impacts ...

Dike ruptures may lead to disastrous consequences such as loss of lives and economic disasters. To prevent the risk of breakage, special supervision of the hydraulic structure is required. Usual methodologies for the ...

This work aim is to present the communication systems that are currently available on the market and to discuss them regarding their use, shortcomings, potential improvement and development opportunities. It also presents ...

Puglia Region has issued, under the "2014-2020 National Governance and Institutional Capacity Operational Program", the “Regional Guidelines for Municipal Civil Protection Plans” in order to improve risk management for ...