Floods and climate: emerging perspectives for flood risk assessment and management

• Published in: Natural hazards and earth system sciences Vol. 14; no. 7; pp. 1921 - 1942
• Main Authors: Merz, B., Aerts, J., Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K., Baldi, M., Becker, A., Bichet, A., Blöschl, G., Bouwer, L. M., Brauer, A., Cioffi, F., Delgado, J. M., Gocht, M., Guzzetti, F., Harrigan, S., Hirschboeck, K., Kilsby, C., Kron, W., Kwon, H.-H., Lall, U., Merz, R., Nissen, K., Salvatti, P., Swierczynski, T., Ulbrich, U., Viglione, A., Ward, P. J., Weiler, M., Wilhelm, B., Nied, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 30.07.2014; Copernicus Publ. / European Geosciences Union; Copernicus Publications
• Subjects: Catchments; Climate variability; Environmental risk; Environmental Sciences; Flood control; Floods; Risk assessment; Risk management; Water resource management; Water resources

Flood estimation and flood management have traditionally been the domain of hydrologists, water resources engineers and statisticians, and disciplinary approaches abound. Dominant views have been shaped; one example is the catchment perspective: floods are formed and influenced by the interaction of...