Future flood risk in Europe is likely to increase due to a combination of climatic and socio-economic drivers. Effective adaptation strategies need to be implemented to limit the impact of river flooding on population and assets. This research builds upon a recently developed flood risk assessment framework at European scale to explore the benefits of adaptation against extreme floods. The effe...

The Poyang Lake is the largest fresh water lake in China, of which the vast area is about 39955 km. The Poyang Lake Area, on the other hand, is the place where floods often occur. In order to reduce the impact and damage of floods on the lives and properties of people living in the Poyang Lake Area, the authors have developed a Geographical Information System for preventing and controlling floo...

Field collected, first generation female Aedes cantator were shown to produce heterogeneous eggs that exhibit variable hatch in response to serial inundations and cold conditioning in the laboratory. Nearly 85% of the egg batches exhibited some hatch with the first flooding, representing 69.4% of the total overall hatch. However, 56% of the same egg batches displayed further hatch with subseque...

Autonomous machines have fascinated people for millennia. The Ancient Greeks told of Talos, the Man of Bronze, whose supposedly mythical existence has been given unexpected credence by the recent discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism. Could the Greeks really have created a giant mechanical man to protect Europa in Crete against pirates and invaders? Long before that, the Ancient Egyptians crea...

This paper reports an experiment of using “artificial” sediments (mixed and DOM enriched) to simulate DIC and Alk fluxes (during inundation) and CO2 flux (during exposure) from subtidal mudflats. The authors also used an early diagenetic model to interpret and simulate the experiment output. (the latter is the focus of this paper) They found that CO2 flux (to atm during exposures) is generally ...

Usually, various kinds of floods are distinguished based on the origin or on the main processes. Basically, the cause of the flood can be overflow over the banks of the main channel, direct runoff or failure of a levee or other structure. Flash floods are typical of steep beds and / or high intensity rainfalls. In mountain areas, they can be associated to debris flows or highly concentrated bed...

Evidence is presented to show that there is a growing disparity between public perception and scientific evidence relating to the causes of floods, their impacts, and the benefits of mitigation measures. It is suggested that this disparity has arisen through the extensive promotion of certain land uses and engineering interventions by vested interest groups in the absence of any effective disse...

Jökulhlaup (glacial outburst floods) are caused by subglacial geothermal activity melting overlying ice, or by draining of ice-dammed lakes. They pose a recurring hazard along Iceland’s south coast where volcano-glacial interactions create often unpredictable, high-magnitude floods. Gathering information about past floods is crucial for projecting findings to present day scenarios and developin...

Floods are the most common natural disaster in both developed and developing countries, and they are occasionally of devastating impact, as the floods in China in 1959 and Bangladesh in 1974 and the tsunami in Southeast Asia in December 2004 show (1). Their impacts on health vary between populations for reasons relating to population vulnerability and type of flood event (2–5). Under future cli...