Premium
Flood risk assessment in european river basins—concept, methods, and challenges exemplified at the mulde river
Author(s) -
Meyer Volker,
Haase Dagmar,
Scheuer Sebastian
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
integrated environmental assessment and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.665
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1551-3793
pISSN - 1551-3777
DOI - 10.1897/ieam_2008-031.1
Subject(s) - flood myth , flood risk assessment , drainage basin , risk assessment , directive , flood risk management , european union , water resource management , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental resource management , environmental planning , environmental science , risk management , 100 year flood , geography , computer science , business , cartography , computer security , archaeology , finance , economic policy , programming language
Flood risk assessment is an essential part of flood risk management, a concept that is becoming more and more popular in European flood policy and is part of the new European Union flood directive. This paper gives a brief introduction into the general concept and methods of flood risk assessment. Furthermore, 3 problems in the practical application of flood risk assessment, particularly on the river basin scale, are discussed: First, uncertainties in flood risk assessment; second, the inclusion of social and environmental flood risk factors; and third, the consideration of the spatial dimension of flood risk. In the 2nd part of the paper a multicriteria risk mapping approach is introduced that is intended to address these 3 problems.