As the number of reported natural disasters resulting in casualties and damages increases
worldwide, assessing vulnerability of the built environment represents a fundamental step …

Decision makers in the field of disaster management have many tools at their disposal to
assist them in making informed decisions. They make use of the available information to set …

Around 45% of natural hazards reported worldwide are related to floods, and current
indications show that exposure to floods and inherent losses will keep escalating. Historic …

Reliable prognoses of building damage caused by flood impact require realistic
relationships between action and damage or loss describing parameters. Due to the fact that …

The Sucevita catchment is affected by heavy rains, which produce annual floods with
catastrophic effects. Among them, the material damages caused to the dwellings of …

River flooding is a common natural disaster in the southern coastal strip of the Caspian Sea
and is of great concern in cities in which the flood risk, mostly due to the high level of …

The focus of this study is an analysis of building vulnerability through investigating impacts
from the 8 February 2013 flash flood event along the Avenida Venezuela channel in the city …

The use of different methods for physical flood vulnerability assessment has evolved over
time, from traditional single-parameter stage–damage curves to multi-parameter approaches …

Globally, many built-up areas are threatened by multiple hazards which pose significant
threat to humans, buildings and infrastructure. However, the analysis of the physical …

Urbanization and climate change are likely to aggravate the flood risk especially in the
developing regions where these are also lack of resources. Risk assessment at the local …