Flood Emergency Management

Professor Dr. Robert Jüpner has been a professor of hydraulic engineering for more than 27 years. In 2007, he was appointed as head of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management Department at the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany. His research focuses on various aspects of flood risk management. He gained specific expertise through his long-term involvement in flood emergency management boards and structures since 2002.  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexandra Schüller is an endowed professor at the University of Applied Sciences Koblenz, funded by the Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany, and a guest investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA. She previously worked in public water management administration, beginning in 2012, and completed her doctorate on operational flood protection in 2022. During the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley in 2021, she served on the crisis management team and was later seconded to the state-level disaster management agency. Her research focuses on reconnaissance, flood emergency management and riverine and coastal resilience.

• Introduction.- Floods: Types, Causes, Characteristics, Impacts.- Hydrological Foundation: Flood Forecasting and Flood Modeling.- Fundamentals of Flood and Heavy Rainfall Risk Management.- Fundamentals of Civil Protection.- Fundamentals of Operational Flood Protection.- Operational Flood Preparedness.- Operational Flood Response.- Operational Post‑Flood Recovery.- Technical Instruments in Operational Flood Protection.- Practical Examples.- Future Challenges.- List of Abbreviations.- References.