Pluvial flooding can have devastating effects, both in terms of loss of life and damage.
Predicting pluvial floods is difficult and many cities do not have a hydrodynamic model or an …

Effective flood risk mitigation requires the impacts of flood events to be much better and
more reliably known than is currently the case. Available post-flood damage assessments …

For centuries flood marks have been used as a way to preserve the memory of extreme
events. In many cities around the world they are considered a cultural heritage and a …

After extensive flooding in 2002, the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) was created as
an ex post loss-financing vehicle for EU member states and candidate countries in the case …

Despite the perceived abundance of information collected after a disaster, available data
furnish a narrow picture of flood impacts, or they are difficult to compare so as to produce an …

Despite significant efforts to reduce the risk from natural disasters, global disaster losses
have been increasing in recent decades (IPCC, 2012; UNISDR, 2015). In the light of the …

High spatial heterogeneous behavior of urban floods offers challenges in its monitoring,
modeling and assessment, and lack of flood database further increases complexity. This …

Disasters have become one of the main problems in different parts of the world, affecting
thousands of people directly or indirectly, making them homeless, missing, injured and …

This chapter discusses the information system and tools for collecting, storing, and
managing damage data in the aftermath of flood events developed within the Poli …