Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften Revised flood risk assessment

The assessment of flood risk considers individual risk, economic risk andenvironmental risk yielding qualitative and quantitative statements which aretypically subjected to substantial uncertainties. Flood risk assessmentcomprises hazard assessment and vulnerability assessment. In the frame ofhazard assessment flood events are analysed by means of recurrenceintervals and spatio-temporal flood characteristics. Within vulnerabilityassessment flood prone utilisations are typically characterised by stagedamage functions or risk curves. The objective of the book is to revise flood risk assessment methodologies and to quantify inherent epistemic uncertainty emerging from different sources and processes. This work comprises scientific publications with emphasis on fundamental aspects of flood risk: (1) uncertainty analysis, (2) environmental flood risk assessment, (3) economic flood risk assessment and (4) individual flood risk assessment. Conclusions were drawn on the basis of specific case studies, mainly within the federal territory of Austria.