Understanding and Managing Floods: an Interdisciplinary Challenge
Floods are among the most devastating natural (and sometimes human-produced) threats on earth, accounting for an annual flood damage over $100 billion. The risk at which people are exposed depends on many factors: the type of flood events, their magnitude, how frequently they occur, the susceptibility of the people and their properties to be adversely affected, and their preparedness in the emergency situations caused by floods. The scope of this collection is to review the recent research on understanding all these factors of flood risk and on managing it, accounting for the ongoing changes in society, landscape and climate. The collection is organized in four parts : (1) Theorizing Flooding, i.e., what are the theoretical frameworks that define floods and flood risk from the physical and social perspectives; (2) The Evidence Base, i.e., what is the current understanding on flood processes and how data can be used to improve it; (3) Forecasting Floods, i.e., what are the flood forecasting methods and how are they implemented at different spatial scales; and (4) Flood management, i.e., what can be done to reduce hazard and vulnerability and to increase resilience to flooding.
Curated by Thomas Hartmann and Alberto Viglione, Associate Editors
Theorizing Flooding
Opinion
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Giuliano Di Baldassarre,Jeltsje S. Kemerink,Michelle Kooy,Luigia Brandimarte
Published Online: Jan 17 2014
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1015
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Overview
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Demetris Koutsoyiannis,Alberto Montanari,Serena Ceola
Published Online: Jul 24 2014
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1038
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Advanced Review
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Sébastien Nobert,Kristian Krieger,Florian Pappenberger
Published Online: Mar 03 2015
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1075
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Elena Volpi
Published Online: Feb 20 2019
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1340
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Advanced Review
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Larisa Tarasova,Ralf Merz,Andrea Kiss,Stefano Basso,Günter Blöschl,Bruno Merz,Alberto Viglione,Stefan Plötner,Björn Guse,Andreas Schumann,Svenja Fischer,Bodo Ahrens,Faizan Anwar,András Bárdossy,Philipp Bühler,Uwe Haberlandt,Heidi Kreibich,Amelie Krug,David Lun,Hannes Müller‐Thomy,Ross Pidoto,Cristina Primo,Jochen Seidel,Sergiy Vorogushyn,Luzie Wietzke
Published Online: May 26 2019
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1353
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The Evidence Base
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Günter Blöschl,Ladislav Gaál,Julia Hall,Andrea Kiss,Jürgen Komma,Thomas Nester,Juraj Parajka,Rui A. P. Perdigão,Lenka Plavcová,Magdalena Rogger,José Luis Salinas,Alberto Viglione
Published Online: Mar 11 2015
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1079
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Manuela Irene Brunner,Jan Seibert,Anne‐Catherine Favre
Published Online: Sep 04 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1173
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Eric Gaume
Published Online: Apr 30 2018
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1290
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Bruno Wilhelm,Juan Antonio Ballesteros Cánovas,Neil Macdonald,Willem H.J. Toonen,Victor Baker,Mariano Barriendos,Gerardo Benito,Achim Brauer,Juan Pablo Corella,Rhawn Denniston,Rüdiger Glaser,Monica Ionita,Michael Kahle,Tao Liu,Marc Luetscher,Mark Macklin,Manfred Mudelsee,Samuel Munoz,Lothar Schulte,Scott St. George,Markus Stoffel,Oliver Wetter
Published Online: Sep 24 2018
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1318
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Marco Borga,Francesco Comiti,Isabelle Ruin,Francesco Marra
Published Online: Feb 07 2019
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1338
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Forecasting Floods
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Thomas C. Pagano,Florian Pappenberger,Andrew W. Wood,Maria‐Helena Ramos,Anders Persson,Brett Anderson
Published Online: Jun 21 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1163
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Rebecca E. Emerton,Elisabeth M. Stephens,Florian Pappenberger,Thomas C. Pagano,Albrecht H. Weerts,Andy W. Wood,Peter Salamon,James D. Brown,Niclas Hjerdt,Chantal Donnelly,Calum A. Baugh,Hannah L. Cloke
Published Online: Feb 27 2016
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1137
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Advanced Review
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Lionel Benoit,Gregoire Mariethoz
Published Online: Jan 18 2017
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1199
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Christian Chwala,Harald Kunstmann
Published Online: Feb 16 2019
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1337
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Flood Management: Hazard, Vulnerability and Resilience
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Carlos N. A. Salinas Rodriguez,Richard Ashley,Berry Gersonius,Jeroen Rijke,Assela Pathirana,Chris Zevenbergen
Published Online: Jan 29 2014
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1017
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Focus Article
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Brett F. Sanders,Tim D. Fletcher,Jochen E. Schubert,Matthew J. Burns
Published Online: Mar 20 2015
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1078
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Edmund C. Penning‐Rowsell
Published Online: Aug 24 2015
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1104
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Stuart N. Lane
Published Online: Apr 11 2017
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1211
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Sergiy Vorogushyn,Paul D. Bates,Karin de Bruijn,Attilio Castellarin,Heidi Kreibich,Sally Priest,Kai Schröter,Stefano Bagli,Günter Blöschl,Alessio Domeneghetti,Ben Gouldby,Frans Klijn,Rita Lammersen,Jeffrey C. Neal,Nina Ridder,Wilco Terink,Christophe Viavattene,Alberto Viglione,Stefano Zanardo,Bruno Merz
Published Online: Dec 29 2017
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1266
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Bernice R. Rosenzweig,Lauren McPhillips,Heejun Chang,Chingwen Cheng,Claire Welty,Marissa Matsler,David Iwaniec,Cliff I. Davidson
Published Online: Jul 17 2018
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1302
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Alexander Fekete
Published Online: Jul 16 2019
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1370
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