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This book examines many aspects of flood risk management in a comprehensive way. As risks depend on hazard and vulnerabilities, not only geophysical tools for flood forecasting and planning are presented, but also socio-economic problems of flood management are discussed. Starting with precipitation and meteorological tools to its forecasting, hydrological models are described in their applications for operational flood forecasts, considering model uncertainties and their interactions with hydraulic and groundwater models. With regard to flood risk planning, regionalization aspects and the options to utilize historic floods are discussed. New hydrological tools for flood risk assessments for dams and reservoirs are presented. Problems and options to quantify socio-economic risks and how to consider them in multi-criteria assessments of flood risk planning are discussed. This book contributes to the contemporary efforts to reduce flood risk at the European scale. Using many real-world examples, it is useful for scientists and practitioners at different levels and with different interests.

Flood control. --- Flood damage prevention. --- Floods -- Risk assessment. --- Risk assessment. --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Flood control --- Risk assessment --- Mathematical models. --- Flood prevention --- Flood protection --- Floods --- Prevention of floods --- Analysis, Risk --- Assessment, Risk --- Risk analysis --- Risk evaluation --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Floodproofing --- Prevention --- Earth sciences. --- Hydrogeology. --- Physical geography. --- Environmental management. --- Earth Sciences. --- Environmental Management. --- Physical Geography. --- Rivers --- Forest influences --- Evaluation --- City planning --- Hazard mitigation --- Regulation --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Geohydrology --- Geology --- Hydrology --- Groundwater

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This book summarises for the first time all relevant methodologies for type-based flood statistics, introduces the basis of flood typology and makes them accessible to the user. Flood types improve the understanding of the flood-generating processes and characterise the flood event in terms of its features such as peak, volume and hydrograph shape. In addition, they can also significantly expand the information used in flood statistics and add valuable flood characteristics to the determination of design floods, especially the determination of flood scenarios relevant for reservoir management. A detailed framework with all aspects of point and spatial statistics as well as regionalisation is presented, and examples illustrate the benefit of the proposed methodology. The target audience is both users in associations and engineering offices, as type-based statistics are increasingly becoming part of the specifications, and researchers, as this is a current field of research.

Water. --- Hydrology. --- Statistics. --- Natural disasters. --- Geographic information systems. --- Natural Hazards. --- Geographical Information System.

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