Advances in Urban Flood Management

R. Ashley, S. Garvin, E. Pasche, A. Vassilopoulos, C. Zevenbergen

• Challenges in Urban Flood Management; Sustainable Measures for Flood Attenuation; Sustainable Drainage and Conveyance Systems SUDACS; Characterisation of Urban Streams and Urban Flooding;Flood Modelling in Urban Rivers; State of the Art in Flood Frequency Analysis; A Critical Reviewof Probability of Extreme Rainfall: Principles and ModelsRole of Detention and Retention; Basins in Stormwater Management and Environmental Protection; Flood-Induced Indirect Hazard Loss Estimation Models; Flood Damage Estimation and Flood Risk Mapping; Flood Risk Modelling in Urban Watercourses - Results of the European FLOWS project; Flood Repair Standards for Buildings; Economic Feasibility Study of Flood-proofing Domestic Dwellings; Local Flood Defence Systems in Europe; European Flood Strategies in Support of Resilient Buildings; New Approaches to Flood Risk Management - Implications for Capacity-building; Towards Integrated Approaches to Reduce Flood Risk in Urban Areas; Hydrological Modelling of Floods; An Overview of Flood Protection Barriers; An Innovative Semi-Permanent Flood Protection Structure - Alternative to Sandbags and Supplements to Conventional Earth Embankments; The English Planning System and Flood Risk Management; Flood Risk Management on the Loire River: a case study