Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of
dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this …

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 …

Europe has experienced a series of major floods in the past years which suggests that flood
magnitudes may have increased. Land degradation due to soil compaction from crop …

This review, commissioned by the Research Councils UK Living With Environmental
Change (LWEC) programme, concerns research on the impacts on health and social care …

As reflected in the ecosystem approach, conservation strategies for the natural environment
are responding to society's needs and the changing climate. Ecosystem assessments …

Natural flood management (NFM) has been advocated as a sustainable alternative to
traditional flood management. NFM is based upon the well‐established principle that …

There is growing concern that flooding is becoming more frequent and severe in Europe. A
better understanding of flood regime changes and their drivers is therefore needed. The …

A rising exposure to flood risk is a predicted consequence of increased development in
vulnerable areas and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events due to climate …

Natural water retention measures (NWRM) are a multifunctional form of green infrastructure
that can play an important role in catchment‐scale flood risk management. While green …

Natural flood management (NFM) techniques attract much interest in flood risk management
science, not least because their effectiveness remains subject to considerable uncertainty …