[en] Europe suffers from flood disasters, which have increased in intensity and frequency in recent years and are likely to be exacerbated by the effects of increased urbanization, climate change and inadequate drainage infrastructure and storage areas. The question facing hydro-environmental researchers is: "What lessons have we learnt from recent flood disasters in Europe?". The IAHR Leadership Team Europe is organizing the preparation of a detailed paper to answer this question. The present abstract provides a brief description of the main parts of this paper, together with an indicative list of flood disasters in the last ten years with their basic characteristics.
Research Center/Unit :
UEE - Urban and Environmental Engineering - ULiège [BE]
Disciplines :
Civil engineering
Author, co-author :
Bento, Ana; Hydraulics, Water Resources, and Environmental Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal ; Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Matosinhos, Portugal, email
Cordier, Florian; EDF R&D National Laboratory of Hydraulics and Environment, Chatou, France
Dewals, Benjamin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering
El Kadi Abderrezzak, Kamal; EDF R&D National Laboratory of Hydraulics and Environment, Chatou, France
Ferradosa, Tiago; Hydraulics, Water Resources, and Environmental Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal ; Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Matosinhos, Portugal, email
Gisonni, Corrado; Chair of Hydraulic Engineering and Hydraulic Structures, Università della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Italy
López-Jiménez, P; Universitat Politècnica de València. DIHMA. Camino de Vera s/n. Valencia. Spain
Molinari, Daniela; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Pummer, Elena; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Rowiński, Paweł; Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Schröter, Kai; Division Hydrology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Leichtweiss-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources (LWI)
Stamou, Anastasios; School of Civil Engineering, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Laboratory of Applied Hydraulics, Greece
Language :
English
Title :
Lessons learnt from recent flood disasters in Europe: Indicative cases
