Towards Sustainable Flood Risk Management in the Rhine and Meuse River Basins

Flood risk (defined as a result of flood probability and potential damage) along Rhine and Meuse rivers is expected to increase in two ways: A. Climate change will cause a significant increase in the probability of extreme floods (according to a majority of climate change scenarios). B. The potential damage of floods (the level of investments in...

Interactive flood management and landscape planning in river systems

Development of a decision support system and analysis of retention options along the lower Rhine river.

Extension of the Flood Forecasting Model FloRIJN

After the floods of 1993 and 1995 in the Rhine basin, the ICPR Action Plan on Flood Defence (ICPR, 1998) was drawn up, after which the environmental affairs ministers of the Rhine riparian states agreed on several meas-ures on the subject of improvement of flood forecasting and warning systems in the Rhine basin. One of the targets of this...