Editorial for the Special Issue on “2021 Summer Floods in Europe”

Journal article (2023)

Authors

Sebastiaan N. Jonkman Texas A&M University Galveston, Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk - CEG
H. de Moel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
J.R. Moll Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk - CEG
Kymo Slager Deltares
Research Group
Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk (CEG) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 Sebastiaan N. Jonkman, H. de Moel, J.R. Moll, K. Slager
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59490/jcrfr.2023.0011
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

Faculty

Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Department

Hydraulic Engineering

Research Group

Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk

Abstract

The heavy precipitation along with the river floods of July 2021 was an extreme and exceptional event in several countries in North-western Europe. It had major societal impacts in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany and was one of the most disastrous flood events in Europe of the last decades.