It has been argued that learning from flood experience contributes to flood resilience.
However, it is unclear what such a learning process involves, and it is debatable whether …

Damage due to floods has increased during the last few decades, and further increases are
expected in several regions due to climate change and growing vulnerability. To address the …

There is an increasing need for strategic global assessments of flood risks in current and
future conditions. In this paper, we propose a framework for global flood risk assessment for …

Flood risk emerges from the interaction of hazard and vulnerability. Over recent decades the
notion of risk being the basis for flood management decisions has become widely accepted …

Governments face the daunting task of developing policies and making investment
decisions for climate change adaptation in an environment that consist of complex …

In Pakistan, floods are recurrent phenomenon and cause heavy loss to human life, standing
crops and property. Community resilience is widely used in disasters and natural hazards …

The concept of resilience is used by many in different ways: as a scientific concept, as a
guiding principle, as inspirational 'buzzword', or as a means to become more sustainable …

In August 2002, a severe flood event occurred in Central Europe. In the following year, a poll
was performed in Germany in which 1697 private households were randomly selected from …

The construction of new infrastructure is hotly contested. This paper presents a comparative
study on three environmental policy domains in the Netherlands that all deal with …

Les systèmes socio naturels possèdent la capacité de résister aux aléas. Les catastrophes
les perturbent, mais les font rarement disparaître. Le concept de résilience, d'origine …