Flood risk management policy across the European Union is changing,
partly in response to the EU Floods Directive and partly because of
new scientific approaches and research findings. It involves a move
towards comprehensive flood risk management, which requires
bringing the following fields/domains closer together: the natural
sciences, social sciences and arts; science, policy and practice;
and engineering, spatial planning and governance. Naturally, this
involves preventive fl ood risk management and flood event
management, as well as learning from the past and considering
future global change. Comprehensive Flood Risk Management includes
about 200 contributions drawn from the 2nd European Conference on
Flood Risk Management FLOODrisk2012 (Rotterdam, the Netherlands,
19-23 November 2012). This conference provided a forum for
scientists, policy makers, researchers, and practitioners to
discuss the practical implications of the latest research findings
and to inventory which questions the research community still needs
to answer. FLOODrisk2012, the successor of the 2008 conference held
in Oxford, UK, was the initiative of Deltares, Delft, the
Netherlands. Comprehensive Flood Risk Management includes the
latest results of numerous projects issuing from the European
Commission's Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes, as well as
results of many other national and international research projects
from Europe and elsewhere in the world. The book features
contributions from natural and social sciences, engineering and
spatial planning, as well as practical experiences of policy makers
and designers, and covers all aspects of fl ood risk assessment and
management: hydraulic loads, reliability of defences and their
monitoring, flood hazard analysis, inundation modelling, hazard and
risk mapping, estimating economic damage and loss-of-life and
integrated flood risk analysis, as well as flood protection, damage
and exposure reduction, reducing social vulnerability, policy
instruments (zoning, regulations), integrated flood risk management
planning and long-term planning for global change, flood prediction
and early warning, evacuation and rescue and other aspects of flood
event management. Finally, the book discusses risk communication,
participatory planning, governance issues, and experiences with the
EU Floods Directive. Comprehensive Flood Risk Management will be of
interest to a readership ranging from scientists to practitioners
involved in fl ood risk management, and consisting of researchers,
consultants, engineers, spatial planners, postgraduate lecturers,
students, civil servants, and policy makers.
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