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Adapting To Rising River Flood Risk In The Eu Under Climate Change
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Book Synopsis Adapting to Rising River Flood Risk in the EU Under Climate Change by :
Download or read book Adapting to Rising River Flood Risk in the EU Under Climate Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River flooding is the costliest natural disaster in Europe. Global warming and continued development in flood prone areas will progressively increase river flood risk. Direct damages from flooding could become six times present losses by the end of the century in case of no climate mitigation and adaptation. Keeping global warming well below 2°C would halve these impacts. Adequate adaptation strategies can further substantially reduce future flood impacts. In particular, implementing building-based damage reduction measures and reducing flood peaks using retention areas can lower impacts in a cost-efficient way in most EU countries, even to flood risk levels that are lower than today. Restoring natural wetlands and floodplains to retain excess water also improves the state of water and ecosystems. PESETA IV estimates that at present river flooding causes a damage of 7.8 €billion/year in the EU and UK, which is equivalent to around 0.06% of current GDP. Moreover, more than 170,000 people every year are exposed to river flooding in the EU and UK.
Book Synopsis Adapting to Rising Coastal Flood Risk in the EU Under Climate Change by :
Download or read book Adapting to Rising Coastal Flood Risk in the EU Under Climate Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around one third of the EU population lives within 50 km of the coast. Extreme sea levels in Europe could rise by as much as one meter or more by the end of this century. Without mitigation and adaptation measures, annual damages from coastal flooding in the EU and UK could increase sharply from 1.4 €billion nowadays to almost 240 €billion by 2100. Around 95% of these impacts could be avoided through moderate mitigation and by raising dykes where human settlements and economically important areas exist along the coastline. The extent to which adaptation can lessen the effects of coastal flooding and at what cost is sensitive to the investment strategy adopted. Damages from coastal flooding in the EU and EU currently amount to 1.4 €billion annually, which is equivalent to around 0.01% of the current GDP of the EU and UK. Almost half of these damages are shared by the UK (0.4 €billion annually) and France (0.2 €billion annually). Around 100,000 people in the EU and UK are exposed to coastal flooding every year.
Book Synopsis Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities by : Jeroen Aerts
Download or read book Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities written by Jeroen Aerts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents climate adaptation and flood risk problems and solutions in coastal cities including an independent investigation of adaptation paths and problems in Rotterdam, New York and Jakarta. The comparison draws out lessons that each city can learn from the others. While the main focus is on coastal flooding, cities are also affected by climate change in other ways, including impacts that occur away from the coast. The New York City Water Supply System, for example, stretches as far as 120 miles upstate, and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has undertaken extensive climate assessment not only for its coastal facilities, but also for its upstate facilities, which will be affected by rising temperatures, droughts, inland flooding and water quality changes. The authors examine key questions, such as: Are current city plans climate proof or do we need to finetune our ongoing investments? Can we develop a flood proof subway system? Can we develop new infrastructure in such a way that it serves flood protection, housing and natural values?
Download or read book Task 7, River Floods : written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1980 river floods in Europe have resulted in over 4,700 fatalities and caused direct economic losses of more than €150 billion (2013 values), and future risk is likely to increase due to the combination of climatic and socio-economic drivers. As such, reliable research works are needed to investigate river flood risk under future climate scenarios, and to evaluate adaptation strategies able to limit the impacts of river flooding. In this report, we present results of the PESETA III river flood risk assessment based on an ensemble of high-resolution regional climate scenarios and suitable socio-economic pathways. We evaluated river flood risk in Europe throughout the 21st century by comparing flood impacts under baseline (1976-2005) climate with those in the near (2021-2050) and far (2071-2100) future and under specific warming levels (SWLs) of 1.5, 2 and 3°C global warming above preindustrial levels. Simulated flood risk scenarios are representative for high levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and considering both time-based and warming-based scenarios allows to evaluate the influence of the speed of warming on flood impacts. Our analysis includes all EU member states plus a number of neighbouring countries, most of which include parts of European river basins like the Danube. The neighbour countries considered are Bosnia - Herzegovina, Belarus, Iceland, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Norway, Serbia and Switzerland. An ensemble of seven regional climate projections from 1970 to 2100 forced by the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 scenario were run through a distributed hydrological model and resulting streamflow was analysed statistically to estimate future changes in the river flood hazard in Europe. Note that the analysis does not consider other flood processes such as coastal floods (due to storm surges and waves), nor pluvial and flash floods (caused by localized, high-intensity rainfall events). Impacts of river floods in Europe were evaluated by combining the occurrence and magnitude of future discharge peaks with present exposure maps (population, landuse) and information on flood defences. Estimates of expected economic damage and population affected were produced considering first only climatic drivers (static economic analysis) and then including the effects of socio-economic development coherent with the considered climate scenarios (dynamic economic analysis). Furthermore, the risk assessment framework was applied to qualitatively evaluate the risk reduction potential of a number of flood adaptation strategies. Measures taken into account include the rise of flood protection, reduction of the peak flows through water retention, reduction of vulnerability and relocation to safer areas. Under baseline climate, in Europe around 216,000 people are exposed each year to river flooding and annual flood damage amounts to €5.3 billion. In most regions of Europe we see an increase of flood risk due to global warming (see Figure 1). Under a 2°C global warming scenario, which under the RCP8.5 pathway will occur in the early 2040s, and considering current socio-economic conditions, flood impacts could more than double, with 525,000 people annually exposed to floods and €13 billion of expected annual losses. If near term (2021-2050) climate conditions are considered, approximately 450,000 people could be exposed annually to river flooding and direct flood damages could reach €12 billion. Longer term climate conditions (2071-2100) imposed on present society could result in over 700,000 people annually exposed to floods while direct flood damages could see a more than three-fold increase with respect to current conditions, reaching €17 billion of average annual losses.
Book Synopsis Climate Change Adaptation, Flood Risk, and Beyond by : Massimiliano Granceri Bradaschia
Download or read book Climate Change Adaptation, Flood Risk, and Beyond written by Massimiliano Granceri Bradaschia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flood Risk Management in Europe by : Selina Begum
Download or read book Flood Risk Management in Europe written by Selina Begum and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-17 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable edition brings together 25 peer reviewed articles on technical, socio-economic, environmental and policy aspects of flood risk management. Some emerging technologies are presented and several future challenges are identified. Thus the book forms an excellent reference for the engineers, scientists, planners, policy-makers, researchers, insurance industry and all the practitioners involved in flood risk management.
Book Synopsis Flood Risk in the Upper Vistula Basin by : Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
Download or read book Flood Risk in the Upper Vistula Basin written by Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book addresses the entirety of river flooding issues in the Upper Vistula Basin, where considerable flood generation potential exists. It analyses the factors influencing flood risk, investigates variations in observation records and discusses projections for the future and adaptation to changing risk. It serves the general interest in understanding the floods that cause massive destruction in Europe, with dozens of fatalities and tremendous material damages. This interdisciplinary book, which covers aspects of climatology, geomorphology, hydrology, and water and flood risk management, unveils the complexity of the current situation. Access to reliable and accurate information can help solve important practical problems related to flood risk reduction strategies, and is at the core of the EU Floods Directive. As such, the book offers a valuable resource for scientists, educators and practitioners involved in water management, natural disaster reduction and adaptation to climate change.
Book Synopsis Climate Change and Flood Risk Management by : E. Carina H. Keskitalo
Download or read book Climate Change and Flood Risk Management written by E. Carina H. Keskitalo and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken together, the studies show that integration of adaptation in flood risk and emergency management may differ strongly _ not only with risk, but with a number of institutional and contextual factors, including capacities and priorities in the speci
Book Synopsis Impact of Climate Change on Floods by :
Download or read book Impact of Climate Change on Floods written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2019, the Council of the EU adopted conclusions on the European Court of Auditor's (ECA) Special Report on floods (ECA, 2018), amongst other recognising that serious floods have become more frequent in Europe and that climate change is an aggravating factor. The Council emphasised a need to improve the knowledge and modelling of the impact of climate change on all sources of floods and called upon the European Commission to work together with the Member States to reinforce and/or develop appropriate tools that better analyse and forecast these impacts. This analysis responds to the Council conclusions, by summarising and examining the Member States' responses to a Discussion Paper and the questions prepared by the Commission services, fully taking into account the conclusions and recommendations of the Commission's fifth Implementation Report of the Member States' second River Basin Management Plans and first Flood Risk Management Plans, reported under the Water Framework and Floods Directives respectively. The current document identifies the main challenges that Member States face when factoring the impact of climate change into flood risk management: - Uncertainty related to future flood risk and addressing the local scale; - Better identification of and guidance for tools and measures for a robust adaptation to future floodrisk; - Coordination of input from various working groups/platforms; - Lack of climate change factors, for different regions of a country and emission scenarios, whichcan be used to adjust hydrological variables (e.g. flood flows & intense rainfall); - Substantial differences between various projections of flood hazard and risk over the countryreported by different researchers. Furthermore, it identifies potential solutions to move forward, namely: - Addressing the issue of stationarity in flood frequency estimates; - Improving the process of integrating climate change science into flood risk management practice; - Using a risk-based approach; - Using online tools to provide a portal for flood and rainfall information under climate change. The document further complements the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change1, adopted by the European Commission on 24 February 2021. The Strategy highlights a number of actions in relation to flood risk management, with a particular focus on closing knowledge gaps on climate impacts and resilience, ecosystem restoration and management, as well as on nature-based solutions as tools to reduce risk of flooding.
Book Synopsis Changes in Flood Risk in Europe by : Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
Download or read book Changes in Flood Risk in Europe written by Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delivers a wealth of information on changes in flood risk in Europe, and considers causes for change. The temporal coverage is mostly focused on post-1900 events, reflecting the typical availability of data, but some information on earlier flood events is also included.
Author :Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Publisher :Cambridge University Press ISBN 13 :9781009157971 Total Pages :755 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (579 download)
Book Synopsis The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate by : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Download or read book The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the observed and projected changes to the ocean and cryosphere and their associated impacts and risks, with a focus on resilience, risk management response options, and adaptation measures, considering both their potential and limitations. It brings together knowledge on physical and biogeochemical changes, the interplay with ecosystem changes, and the implications for human communities. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant information. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Book Synopsis Transient Merging of Two Rhine Flow Regimes from Climate Change by : Erwin Rottler
Download or read book Transient Merging of Two Rhine Flow Regimes from Climate Change written by Erwin Rottler and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River flooding poses a threat to numerous cities and communities all over the world. The detection, quantification and attribution of changes in flood characteristics is key to assess changes in flood hazard and help affected societies to timely mitigate and adapt to emerging risks. The Rhine River is one of the major European rivers and numerous large cities reside at its shores. Runoff from several large tributaries superimposes in the main channel shaping the complex from regime. Rainfall, snowmelt as well as ice-melt are important runoff components. The main objective of this thesis is the investigation of a possible transient merging of nival and pluvial Rhine flood regimes under global warming. Rising temperatures cause snowmelt to occur earlier in the year and rainfall to be more intense. The superposition of snowmelt-induced floods originating from the Alps with more intense rainfall-induced runoff from pluvial-type tributaries might create a new flood type with potentially disastrous consequences. To introduce the topic ...
Book Synopsis Flood Risk and Social Justice by : Zoran Vojinovic
Download or read book Flood Risk and Social Justice written by Zoran Vojinovic and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flood Risk and Social Justice is a response to the rising significance of floods and flood-related disasters worldwide, as an initiative to promote a socially just approach to the problems of flood risk. It integrates the human-social and the technological components to provide a holistic view. This book treats flooding as a multi-dimensional human and natural world tragedy that must be accommodated using all the social and technological means that can be mobilised before, during and after the flooding event. It covers socially just flood risk mitigation practices which necessitate a wide range of multidisciplinary approaches, starting from social and wider environmental needs, including feedback cycles between human needs and technological means. Flood Risk and Social Justice looks at how to judge whether a risk is acceptable or not by addressing an understanding of social and phenomenological considerations rather than simple calculations of probabilities multiplied by unwanted outcomes and their balancing between costs and benefits. It is argued that the present ‘flood management’ practice should be largely replaced by the social justice approach where particular attention is given to deciding what is the right thing to do within a much wider context. Thus it insists upon the validity of modes of human understanding which cannot be addressed within the limited context of modern science. Flood Risk and Social Justice is written to support a wide range of audiences and seeks to improve the dialogue between researchers and practitioners from different disciplines (including post-graduate engineering, environmental and social science students, industry practitioners, academics, planners, environmental advocacy groups and environmental law professionals) who have a strong interest in a new kind of social justice work that can act as a continuous counter-balance to the various mechanisms that unceasingly give rise to profound injustices. More information about this book can be found in this article written for the WaterWiki by the author: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/FloodRiskandSocialJustice Authors: Zoran Vojinovic is Associate Professor at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands, with almost 20 years of consulting and research experience in various aspects of water industry in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Europe, Central/South America and the Caribbean. Michael B. Abbott is Emeritus Professor at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands, and a Director of the European Institute for Industrial Leadership in Brussels. He founded and developed the disciplines of Computational Hydraulics and Hydroinformatics and co-founded, the Journal of Hydroinformatics with Professor Roger Falconer.
Book Synopsis Flood Risk Management by : Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell
Download or read book Flood Risk Management written by Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world. Demonstrating the diversity of global flood risk management (FRM), this volume covers a range of topics including planning and policy, risk governance and communication, forecasting and warning, and economics. Through short case studies, the range of international examples from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa provide analysis of FRM efforts, processes and issues from human, governance and policy implementation perspectives. Written by an international set of authors, this collection of chapters and case studies will allow the reader to see how floods and flood risk management is experienced in different regions of the world. The way in which institutions manage flood risk is discussed, introducing the notions of realities and social constructions when it comes to risk management. The book will be of great interest to students and professionals of flood, coastal, river and natural hazard management, as well as risk analysis and insurance, demonstrating multiple academic frameworks of analysis and their utility and drawbacks when applied to real-life FRM contexts.
Book Synopsis Flood Risk Assessment and Management by : Andreas H. Schumann
Download or read book Flood Risk Assessment and Management written by Andreas H. Schumann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flood catastrophes which happened world-wide have shown that it is not sufficient to characterize the hazard caused by the natural phenomenon "flood" with the well-known 3M-approach (measuring, mapping and modelling). Due to the recent shift in paradigms from a safety oriented approach to risk based planning it became necessary to consider the harmful impacts of hazards. The planning tasks changed from attempts to minimise hazards towards interventions to reduce exposure or susceptibility and nowadays to enhance the capacities to increase resilience. Scientific interest shifts more and more towards interdisciplinary approaches, which are needed to avoid disaster. This book deals with many aspects of flood risk management in a comprehensive way. As risks depend on hazard and vulnerabilities, not only geophysical tools for flood forecasting and planning are presented, but also socio-economic problems of flood management are discussed. Starting with precipitation and meteorological tools to its forecasting, hydrological models are described in their applications for operational flood forecasts, considering model uncertainties and their interactions with hydraulic and groundwater models. With regard to flood risk planning, regionalization aspects and the options to utilize historic floods are discussed. New hydrological tools for flood risk assessments for dams and reservoirs are presented. Problems and options to quantify socio-economic risks and how to consider them in multi-criteria assessments of flood risk planning are discussed. This book contributes to the contemporary efforts to reduce flood risk at the European scale. Using many real-world examples, it is useful for scientists and practitioners at different levels and with different interests.
Book Synopsis Flood Hazards and Health by : Roger Few
Download or read book Flood Hazards and Health written by Roger Few and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2013 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and deal with, the health impacts. This book is the first detailed assessment and discussion of the global health implications of flooding and future flood risk. It combines an analysis of the human health impacts of flooding with analysis of individual and societal response to those risks, and sets these findings in light of potential future increases in flood hazard as a result of climate change. Written and edited by leading researchers and practitioners on flood hazards and human health, the volume brings together findings from epidemiological, environmental, social and institutional studies, with analysis rooted in an approach that emphasizes the developmental as well as environmental causes of flood risk, and the socially differentiated nature of vulnerability and coping capacity. The first part of the book sets out the scope of the issues, and provides a detailed discussion of the global health impacts of floods and the nature of human response to the health risks posed. The second part presents new research evidence on specific health aspects of floods covering mental health, infectious diseases, local level responses and the responses of health systems - drawing on case study material from Europe, Africa, Asia and North America, including the impact of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The conclusion synthesizes insights from the previous chapters and discusses priorities for policy, practice and research. It draws out implications for present and future adaptation to flooding, and emphasizes the need to integrate action on health with the broader agenda of long-term risk reduction. This is indispensable reading for professionals and researchers working on hazard and disaster planning, risk reduction and public health in all countries and contexts.
Book Synopsis Floods Across Europe by : Edmund Penning-Rowsell
Download or read book Floods Across Europe written by Edmund Penning-Rowsell and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of rivers and coastlines has been a priority for centuries and leas involved enormous expense, yet the forces of nature still act in ways that threaten lives, damage property, and disrupt economic activities and communications. Almost every year somewhere in Europe rivers overflow their banks; storms, high tides and coastal surges take place; and severe thunderstorms produce intense rainfall and cause damage and disruption.
