Affiliation

Subject

Blanca Jimenez Cisneros

UNESCO

Water Security: Needs to address the theme under IHP VIII

Hubert Savenije

IAHS

Panta Rhei, the new science decade of IAHS

Howard Wheater

Canada

Water Security – science and management challenges

Frans Berkhout

Future Earth

The Anthropocene

Zbignew Kundzewicz

Poland

Hydrological Extremes and Security

Grigory M. Barenboim et al.

Russia

New problems and opportunities of oil spill monitoring systems

José Galizia Tundisi

Brazil

Water availability, water quality and water governance: the future ahead

Pradeep Mujumdar

India

Uncertainty in Regional Impacts of Climate Change: A Growing Challenge for Water Management in the Developing World

Yan Huang

China

Flood management and drought relief using engineering measures

Bruce Stewart

WMO

Measuring what we manage - the importance of hydrological data to water resources management

Vazken Andreassian et al.

France

What part of natural flow can be considered a water resource?

Michela Miletto

WWAP

Water and Energy nexus: findings of the World Water Development Report 2014

Heribert Nacken

Germany

Capacity Building for Hydrological Change - using a Blended Learning approach

Major floods are the most chronic and costly natural hazards in many countries and continuing work in flood related sciences and implementation of hazard-reduction policies is essential to constrain the associated damage.

Several publications available from IAHS report innovative flood research and integrated flood risk management.

The following are available via our online Bookshop

Special Publ. 10 (2012) 978-1-907161-28-5 516 + xvi pp.

Changes in Flood Risk in Europe

Editor Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz

Floods are the most prevalent natural hazard in Europe. But, has flood risk increased in the continent? How, where, and why? Are climate change impacts apparent? How do socio-economic trends and associated land-use change impact flood risk? This interdisciplinary book, authored by an international team, offers:

• A comprehensive overview of flood risk in Europe, past and present, and future
• National/regional chapters covering Central Europe, Western Europe, Southern Europe and Northern Europe, the Alpine region and the Iberian Peninsula.
• A focus on detection and attribution of change with respect to climate change and its impacts, water resources and flood risk, the re-insurer’s view point, and future projections of flood risk.

IAHS Publ. 357 (2013) ISBN 978-1-907161-35-3, 470 + x pp.

Floods: From Risk to Opportunity

Editors A. Chavoshian & K. Takeuchi
Co-editors X. Cheng, E. Plate, S. Simonovic, S. Uhlenbrook & N. Wright

A paradigm shift from focusing on emergency response and recovery to flood risk management is required to build the capacity necessary to cope with floods. The process should be supported by vulnerability monitoring and development of tools such as standard measures of risk and preparedness in an integrated approach to improve capacity to deal with floods, taking advantage of their benefits while minimizing the social, economic and environmental risks. The papers cover flood risk and disaster management, forecasting and early warning, and management in different regions.

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