Managing urban flood risk is a key global challenge of the twenty-first century. Drivers of
future UK flood risk were identified and assessed by the Flood Foresight project in 2002 …

Managing flood risk, ie both the hazard and the potential consequences, is an important
aspect of adapting to global change and has gained much traction in recent decades. As a …

A holistic perspective on changing rainfall-driven flood risk is provided for the late 20th and
early 21st centuries. Economic losses from floods have greatly increased, principally driven …

This paper presents a first estimate of the exposure of the world's large port cities
(population exceeding one million inhabitants in 2005) to coastal flooding due to sea-level …

This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the environmental and engineering
aspects of the management of rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development …

Human activities have profoundly changed the land on which we live. In particular, land use
and land management change affect the hydrology that determines flood hazard, water …

Public participation is commonly advocated in policy responses to climate change. Here we
discuss prospects for inclusive approaches to adaptation, drawing particularly on studies of …

Flood risk emerges from the interaction of hazard and vulnerability. Over recent decades the
notion of risk being the basis for flood management decisions has become widely accepted …

Chapter 3 evaluates observed and projected changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial
extent, and duration of extreme weather and climate events. This physical basis provides a …

Climate change brings new challenges for traditional environmental risk management,
particularly for major infrastructure projects, where the decisions made today can have long …