Socio-hydrology in the floodplain: Investigating patterns of human response to riverine floods by quantifying the human footprint in flood prone areas using nighttime light data

Flooding is globally one of the most damaging natural hazard. Flood risk will most likely increase in the near future due to increases in flood frequency attributed to climate change and growth in population and wealth in flood prone areas. This growth in wealth and population is increasingly considered as a major driver for the increase in...