Causes and consequences of floods: flash floods, urban floods, river floods and coastal floods

Floods and Drowning Incidents by Floods

Floods as natural disasters can cause severe even fatal damages to many communities such as loss of lives and properties every year. The aim of this study is to present the risks of floods for the human life and the basic characteristics of the citizens who lose their lives as a result of floods. For this study, online archives related to flood events have been examined via search engines, “www...

Consequences of Human-altered Floods: Levees, Floods, and Floodplain Forests along the Wisconsin River

Flood-control levees are generally thought to increase flood height and velocity for a given discharge. While extensive areas of floodplain in the United States are leveed, the ecological impacts of levees have largely been ignored relative to other anthropogenic impacts to large river floodplains. We examined a century of flood control along the Wisconsin River by comparing simulated flood reg...

Planning for urban floods.

Macroscopic modelling of urban floods

Floods and tsunamis.

Floods and tsunamis cause few severe injuries, but those injuries can overwhelm local areas, depending on the magnitude of the disaster. Most injuries are extremity fractures, lacerations, and sprains. Because of the mechanism of soft tissue and bone injuries, infection is a significant risk. Aspiration pneumonias are also associated with tsunamis. Appropriate precautionary interventions preven...