Flood Risk Assessment and Management

1. Introduction – Hydrological Aspects of Risk Management
Andreas H. Schumann

2. Uncertainties in Weather Forecast – Reasons and Handling
Dirk Schüttemeyer, Clemens Simmer

3. Interpolation of Precipitation for Flood Modelling
Uwe Haberlandt

4. Framing Uncertainties in Flood Forecasting with Ensembles
Andreas H. Schumann, Yan Wang, Jörg Dietrich

5. Design of Artificial Neural Networks for Flood Forecasting
Johannes Cullmann, Gerd H. Schmitz

6. Advances in Regionalising Flood Probabilities
Ralf Merz

7. Rainfall Generators for Application in Flood Studies
Uwe Haberlandt, Yeshewatesfa Hundecha, Markus Pahlow, Andreas H. Schumann

8. Copulas – New Risk Assessment Methodology for Dam Safety
Bastian Klein, Andreas H. Schumann, Markus Pahlow

9. Hydraulic Modelling
Mark Musall, Peter Oberle, Franz Nestmann

10. Groundwater – The Subterranean Part of Flood Risk
Thomas Sommer

11. Quantification of Socio-Economic Flood Risks
Bruno Merz, Annegret Thieken, Heidi Kreibich

12. Application of Scenarios and Multi-Criteria Decision Making Tools in Flood Polder Planning
Andreas H. Schumann, David Nijssen

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Hydrogeology, Environmental Management, Physical Geography