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...

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...

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...

In April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, killing over 9,000 people, destroying or badly damaging more than 800,000 homes and...

This document elaborates the methods for treating water for access of families to safe drinking water during emergencies in order to protect them...

This report describes the Dutch context of flood risk management, the institutions, disasters which influenced our flood risk policy and disaster...

This report outlines 20 measures that can be implemented by commercial real estate owners and managers to enhance flood-resilience of existing office...