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Nighttime light data reveal how flood protection shapes human proximity to rivers. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2018
Mård J, Di Baldassarre G, Mazzoleni M.
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FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2016
With projected changes in climate, population and socioeconomic activity located in flood-prone areas, the global assessment of flood risk is essential to inform climate change policy and disaster risk management.
P. Scussolini, J. C. J. H. Aerts, B. Jongman, L. M. Bouwer, H. C. Winsemius, H. de Moel, P. J. Ward   +6 more
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Sustainable Stormwater Management: A Holistic Planning Approach for Water Sensitive Cities [PDF]

Journal of Hydraulic Structures, 2022
The planning of sustainable stormwater infrastructures for future water-sensitive cities requires new holistic methods. In the Indo-German research project SMART&WISE, a structured approach was de-veloped to improve the planning processes for water ...
Timo Dilly, Karim Sedki, Ralf Habermehl, Ulrich Dittmer, S. Murty Bhallamudi   +4 more
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Flood risk management in Flanders: past developments and future challenges [PDF]

, 2013
This paper presents the state of the art of flood risk management in Flanders, a low-lying region in the northern part of Belgium which is vulnerable to flooding.
De Maeyer, Philippe, Deckers, Pieter, Kellens, Wim, Meire, Ellen, Vanneuville, Wouter, Verfaillie, Els   +5 more
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Dealing with Uncertainty in Flood Management Through Diversification [PDF]

, 2008
This paper shows, through a numerical example, how to develop portfolios of flood management activities that generate the highest return under an acceptable risk for an area in the central part of the Netherlands. The paper shows a method based on Modern
Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H., Botzen, Wouter, Krywkow, Jörg, Veen, Anne van der, Werners, Saskia   +4 more
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Resilience and adaptation of small and medium-sized enterprises to flood risk [PDF]

, 2012
Purpose – The UK has experienced a number of flood events in recent years, and the intensity and frequency of such events are forecast to further increase in future due to changing climatic conditions.
Ingirige, MJB, Wedawatta, GSD
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Reconstruction of flood events based on documentary data and transnational flood risk analysis of the Upper Rhine and its French and German tributaries since AD 1480 [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2015
This paper presents the long-term analysis of flood occurrence along the southern part of the Upper Rhine River system and of 14 of its tributaries in France and Germany covering the period starting from 1480 BC.
I. Himmelsbach, R. Glaser, J. Schoenbein, D. Riemann, B. Martin   +4 more
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A global open-source database of flood-protection levees on river deltas (openDELvE) [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2022
Flood-protection levees have been built along rivers and coastlines globally. Current datasets, however, are generally confined to territorial boundaries (national datasets) and are not always easily accessible, posing limitations for hydrologic models ...
J. H. Nienhuis, J. R. Cox, J. O'Dell, D. A. Edmonds, P. Scussolini   +4 more
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Climate change adaptation, flood risks and policy coherence in integrated water resources management in England [PDF]

, 2016
Integrated water resources management (IWRM) assumes coherence between cognate aspects of water governance at the river basin scale, for example water quality, energy production and agriculture objectives.
A Jordan, A Jordan, A Jordan, AK Gain, C Johnson, D Benson, D Benson, D Benson, D Benson, D Benson, DA Mazmanian, David Benson, DC Thomas, Defra, Defra, Department for Communities and Local Government, E Ostrom, EC Penning-Rowsell, EC Penning-Rowsell, Environment Agency (EA), F Molle, GOV.UK, H Cook, H Cook, I Lorenzoni, Irene Lorenzoni, J Porter, JJ Rouillard, JO Veláquez Gomar, Local Government Association (LGA), LS Smith, M Bevir, M Hill, M Nilsson, National Audit Office (NAO), O Bennett, O Fritsch, OECD, Official Journal of the European Union, OR Young, P Pierson, PJ May, PJ May, RAW Rhodes, S Brouwer, W Dunn   +45 more
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Brief communication: Bridging the data gap – a call to enhance the representation of global coastal flood protection [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Understanding coastal flood protection is crucial for assessing risks from natural hazards and climate change. However, there is a significant lack of quantitative data on coastal flood protection and related standards, posing a major barrier to risk ...
N. van Maanen, J. J.-F. G. De Plaen, T. Tiggeloven, M. L. Colmenares, P. J. Ward, P. J. Ward, P. Scussolini, E. Koks   +7 more
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