Flood Risk Assessments Applications and Uncertainties

• Other Authors: Diez-Herrero, Andres (Editor), Garrote, Julio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; flood risk assessments; vulnerability of networks; emergency management; geographic information systems; open source; flood risk; LOESS model; risk map calibration; 112 emergency service; central Spain; PRICAM project; spatial autocorrelation; Poisson regression; eigenvector spatial filtering method; flood risk evaluation; Ebro River; flood mapping; flood risk areas; RADAR SAR; Sentinel-1; RGB composition; calibrated thresholding; pluvial floods; flood risk assessment; climate change; damages; vehicles; properties; pedestrians; floods; fatalities; circumstances of loss of life; historical analysis; levee failures; database; flood defences; levee breach; cultural heritage; meso-scale; flood hazard; flood vulnerability; Castile and León; Spain; lahar; Pico de Orizaba; paleostage indicators; tree-ring analysis; RAMMS program; flood torrential dynamics; geomorphological threshold; land-use changes; ski resort; hydrological response; Pyrenees; glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF); debris flow; Bhote Koshi; landslides; Gorkha earthquake; hazard assessment; vulnerability indicators; vulnerability cartography; AHP; local analysis; open public data sources; economic damage; building first floor; magnitude-damage models; Navaluenga; flood forecasting; snow cover control; flood management; Tagus Basin; climate model projections; Reinosa; climate change prioritization; flood risk analysis; flood damage uncertainty
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In recent years, a considerable volume of technical literature has been published on flood hazard analysis, and more recently, on flood vulnerability and resilience. Nevertheless, there is still a shortage of scientific studies and practical experience of real flood risk assessment (both social and...