Damage assessments of natural hazards supply crucial information to decision support and
policy development in the fields of natural hazard management and adaptation planning to …

Developing appropriate responses to address and prevent surface water flooding requires
an analysis of interactions between elements of a risk framework encompassing hazard …

In the aftermath of a severe flood event in August 2002 in Germany, 1697 computer‐aided
telephone interviews were undertaken in flood‐affected private households. Besides the …

Flow velocity is generally presumed to influence flood damage. However, this influence is
hardly quantified and virtually no damage models take it into account. Therefore, the …

Currently, a shift from classical flood protection as engineering task towards integrated flood
risk management concepts can be observed. In this context, a more consequent …

The estimation of flood losses is an essential component for risk-oriented flood design, risk
mapping or financial appraisals in the reinsurance sector. However, only simple models, eg …

Current flood vulnerability analyses rely on deterministic methods (eg, stage–damage
functions) to quantify resulting damage and losses to the built environment. While such …

Assessments of vulnerability to flooding can generate useful data for planners and policy
makers. To the best of the authors knowledge, no flood-vulnerability study has combined …

Quantitative modeling of risk and hazard from flooding involves decisions regarding the
choice of model and goal of the modeling exercise, expressed by some measure of …

Understanding the physical vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure to natural hazards is
an essential step in risk assessment for large cities. We have interpreted high spatial …