Drawing on evidence from the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, this paper
explores how people have responded to flood warning information and how these …

Flash floods are characterized by their suddenness, fast and violent movement, rarity, small
scale but high level of damage. They are particularly difficult to forecast accurately and there …

Advances in meteorological, hydrological and engineering sciences are fast generating a
range of new methodologies for forecasting weather and flood events, including ensemble …

Social vulnerability explains the sociological and human-dependent circumstances that
translate a natural event into a deadly disaster. But, what are the space–time characteristics …

This paper aims to analyse and compare the loss of life that occurred during two recent
floods in France. The first flood was due to a sea surge triggered by the storm called Xynthia …

Social and Hydrological Responses to Extreme Precipitations: An Interdisciplinary Strategy
for Postflood Investigation in: Weather, Climate, and Society Volume 6 Issue 1 (2014) Jump …

L'évaluation des risques implique par définition de considérer à la fois les aléas, les enjeux
exposés et leurs vulnérabilités. Depuis une dizaine d'année le concept de vulnérabilité fait …

The project management has been described as managing resources on a given activity of
an organisation unit dedicated in order to meet the attainment of a goal and successful …

À partir de deux cas d'inondations récentes qui ont fait respectivement 41 et 26 morts en
France en 2010, cet article examine le profil des victimes et les circonstances de décès des …

Flash floods surprise people in the midst of their daily activities because they are sudden.
They, particularly strike people traveling. For each catastrophe, up to half of the deaths are …