Floods are among the most frequent and destructive natural hazards worldwide (CRED, 2020). In Europe, as in many other parts of world, number severe inland floods has been increasing since 1980s (Bloschl et al., combination with urban development accumulation damage potential floodplains these shifts extremes likely to be major cost drivers for adaptation infrastructure thus pose biggest challe...

Reservoirs have altered the flow regime of most rivers on the globe. To simulate the natural flow regime, experimental floods are being implemented on regulated rivers throughout the world to improve their ecological integrity. As a large-scale disturbance, the long-term sequential use of floods provides an excellent empirical approach to examine ecosystem regime shifts in rivers. This study ev...

There is growing concern that flooding is becoming more frequent and severe in Europe. A better understanding of flood regime changes and their drivers is therefore needed. The paper reviews the current knowledge on flood regime changes in European rivers that has traditionally been obtained through two alternative research approaches. The first approach is the data-based detection of changes i...

This paper presents a reconnaissance study of regional flood patterns in the United States, focusing on peak discharges at several recurrence intervals and characteristics of flood-causing rainfall. Because of an interest in flash floods, attention was restricted to watersheds between 10 and 200 km in area. Data were obtained from 130 stream gaging stations with a consistent 30-year period of r...

surat is a highly developed, thickly populated cosmopolitan character city with full of various activities going on day and night. any natural calamity which causes loss of lives to property and infrastructure along with effects on industrial processes going on has serious impact on economy of the state. therefore, it becomes highly necessary that flood events are studied and analyzed properly ...

Many coastal cities in developing countries are at the risk of flooding due to a progressive increase built-up areas and poor management storm water. The situation gets accentuated further climate-induced natural disasters such as cyclones climate change-induced sea-level rise that adversely impact city's drainage potential. This study developed composite urban flood index consisting three sub-...

Floods are known to cause serious environmental damage and health impacts. Studies on flood-related diseases have been primarily on individual events, and limited evidence could be drawn on potential health impacts from floods using large population data. This study used reimbursement records of one million people of the Taiwan National Health Insurance program to compare incident diseases of t...