Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related uncertanities. Professionals in this

Flood risk management is presented in this book as a framework for identifying, assessing and prioritizing climate-related risks and developing appropriate adap

Floods are of increasing public concern world-wide due to increasing damages and unacceptably high numbers of injuries. Previous approaches of flood protection

​There has been some degree of reluctance in the past to consider disaster risk management within the mainstream of adaptation to climate variability and clim

Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world. Demonstrating the diversity