This chapter proposes an integrated direct and indirect flood risk model for small and large-scale flood events, allowing for dynamic modelling of total economic losses from a flood event to a full economic recovery. A novel approach is taken which translates direct losses of both capital and labour into production losses using the Cobb-Douglas production function, aiming at improved consistenc...

Abstract Estimation of economic loss is essential for stakeholders to manage flood risk. Most flooding events are closely related extreme precipitation, which influenced by large-scale climate factors. Considering the lagged influence factors, we developed a flood-risk assessment framework and used Hunan Province in China as an example illustrate risk process. The main patterns precipitation—as...

Background Flood is the most common (40%) natural disaster worldwide leading occasionally to devastating impact on human and properties. In recent decades, the incidence and magnitude of floods has grown in Southeast Asia region, resulting in substantial economic damages, affecting and killing thousands of people. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of flood on human and estimate the ...

Floods are among the most frequent and costly natural disasters in terms of human hardship and economic loss. In recent years Europe suffered over 100 major damaging floods. Since 1998, floods have caused damages of some 700 facilities, the displacement of about half a million people and at least 25 billion Euro in insured economic losses. In the United States, about 90 percent of the damage ca...

UNLABELLED Flooding is the most common and damaging of all natural disasters in the United States, and was a factor in almost all declared disasters in U.S. HISTORY Direct flood losses in the U.S. in 2011 totaled $8.41 billion and flood damage has also been on the rise globally over the past century. The National Flood Insurance Program paid out more than $38 billion in claims since its incep...

Two complementary GIS-based functions are designed and implemented to assess the expected degree of loss due to the occurrence of flood events. Each function processes institutional thematic layers and allows decision makers first to quantify the physical and the economic exposure of the elements at risk in a given study region and then to assess the expected degree of economic loss in relation...

Flood risk reduction can be obtained in many ways and by many measures. A common approach in The Netherlands is to divide the measures in three layers: flood prevention, land use planning and emergency measurement. An important question is how to select the measures among these layers, and whether it is necessary to select measures in all three layers. In this paper we follow an economic approa...

Flood disasters cause massive loss of human lives and immense damage to the infrastructure and economic activities, not only in Turkey but also all over the world. Governments consider several long-term and short-term precautions for flood control. The numerical simulation of dam-break problems could be accomplished with geographic information systems and innovation maps. Spread of the flood wa...

The current state-of-the-art in flood damage analysis mainly focuses on the economic evaluation of tangible flood effects. It is contended in this discussion paper that important economic, social and ecological aspects of flood-related vulnerabilities are neglected. It is a challenge for flood research to develop a wider perspective for flood damage evaluation.