
On the 28th of February 2010 at 2 a.m. the storm Xynthia hit the French Atlantic coast. The storm surge combined with the high tide and large waves...
The Atlas of the Human Planet 2017. Global Exposure to Natural Hazards summarizes the global multi-temporal analysis of exposure to six major natural...
This report is produced as part of Zurich’s global flood resilience programme and the JBA Trust’s mission to improve knowledge about flood risk....
At the end of December 1993 and also at the end of January 1995, the river Meuse, one of the major rivers in Europe, flooded and river banks were...
In 2016 the government’s National Flood Resilience Review highlighted temporary flood defences as a solution to protecting assets in some flood...
This research examines the ways in which social media is used to organize and manage volunteers during a flood. Flooding is currently one of the top...
Social scientists have a long history of documenting disasters and natural extreme events’ behavioural response through the collection of perishable...
This report describes the Dutch context of flood risk management, the institutions, disasters which influenced our flood risk policy and disaster...
Many areas of Great Britain were badly affected by flooding over a fourteen-week period in the winter of 2015/2016. The flooding had considerable...
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