One and done? Exploring linkages between households' intended adaptations to climate-induced floods

As climate change increases the probability and severity of natural hazards, the need for coordinated adaptation at all levels of society intensifies. Governmental-level adaptation measures are essential, but insufficient in the face of growing risks, necessitating complementary action from households. Apprehending the drivers of household...

Dependence between high sea-level and high river discharge increases flood hazard in global deltas and estuaries

When river and coastal floods coincide, their impacts are often worse than when they occur in isolation; such floods are examples of ‘compound events’. To better understand the impacts of these compound events, we require an improved understanding of the dependence between coastal and river flooding on a global scale. Therefore, in this letter,...

Performance of Models for Flash Flood Warning and Hazard Assessment: The 2015 Kali Gandaki Landslide Dam Breach in Nepal

The 2015 magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake and its aftershocks weakened mountain slopes in Nepal. Co- and postseismic landsliding and the formation of landslide-dammed lakes along steeply dissected valleys were widespread, among them a landslide that dammed the Kali Gandaki River. Overtopping of the landslide dam resulted in a flash flood...

Hurricane Harvey Report: A fact-finding effort in the direct aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in the Greater Houston Region

On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of approximately 200 km/hour. Harvey caused severe damages in coastal Texas due to extreme winds and storm surge, but will go down in history for record-setting rainfall totals and flood-related damages. Across large...

Benefits of linked data for interoperability during crisis management

Floodings represent a permanent risk to the Netherlands in general and to her power supply in particular. Data sharing is essential within this crisis scenario as a power cut affects a great variety of interdependant sectors. Currently used data sharing systems have been shown to hamper interoperability between stakeholders since they lack...

Surface and subsurface water from space: On the integration of microwave remote sensing observations with flood prediction systems

The technique of active microwave remote sensing has made much progress toward its high potential to monitor water storage changes in terrestrial surface and subsurface water bodies at various spatial and temporal scales. The number of studies demonstrating the support these data can offer in hydrological and hydraulic model building, model...

Climate awareness, preparation resilience and measuring adaptability of the governance system in Rotterdam for flood risks

Dodelijke overstromingen langs de Franse kust, schade door storm Xynthia

Memo met samenvatting van de effecten van stormvloed, dijkdoorbraken en overstromingen in Frankrijk door de storm Xynthia op 28 februari 2010. Overzicht schade, slachtoffers, staat van onderhoud waterkeringen en politieke implicaties. In Bijlage korte beschrijving effect Xynthia in Nederland

Overzicht bronnen van verontreinigd slib en mogelijke transportpaden

Transport van verontreinigingen via slibdeeltjes (vooral via gesuspendeerd materiaal, daarnaast ook via ‘bedload’) kan een belangrijk aandeel vormen in het totale transport van deze stoffen. Het kan hierbij gaan om grote hoeveelheden die bovendien grensoverschrijdend verplaatst worden, en grote ecologische effecten teweeg kunnen brengen. Voor...

Protecting St. Bernard Parish, New Orleans: Revision of the coastal defence zone

This document is the final report of a Master thesis research. The research was executed as cooperation between Delft University of Technology, ARCADIS and ComCoast as part of The Road and Hydraulic Engineering Institute of the Directorate-General of Public Works and Water management (RWS DWW). In this report, the hurricane defence system of St....

Living on the edge

If the sea were to flood the southern parts of the agglomeration that covers most of the western part of the Netherlands, the death toll would be in the thousands, as predicted by a calculation method developed at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Evacuation would save precious few lives. So how can a disaster of this magnitude be averted?

Consequences of floods for civil infrastructure

Consequences of floods: 2D hydraulic simulations for the case study area Central Holland

Consequences of floods: The development of a method to estimate the loss of life

Literature study on environmental impact of floods

Literature study on flood damage data

FRHYMAP: Flood Risk and HYdrological MAPping

The general objective of the FRHYMAP project was to integrate within a single mesoscale basin, the transboundary Alzette river basin, the various aspects concerning flooding events, reaching from the hydro-climatological analysis of field data to the risk assessment of socio-economic impacts, taking into account past and future climate and...

Land below sea level

Short booklet on the hydraulic history of the Netherlands, the battle against floods and storm surges in history