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Floods and Landslides: Integrated Risk Assessment pp 19–38Cite as

Flood Hazard Assessment and Mitigation

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A flood is an overflowing of water from rivers onto land not usually submerged. Floods also occur when water levels of lakes, ponds, reservoirs, aquifers and estuaries exceed some critical value and inundate the adjacent land, or when the sea surges on coastal lands much above the average sea level. Nevertheless, floods are a natural phenomenon important to the life cycle of many biota, not the least of which is mankind. Floods became a problem as humans began establishing farms and cities in the bottom-lands of streams and rivers. In doing so, they not only exposed their lives and properties to the ravages of floods, but also exacerbated floods by paving the soil and constructing the stream channels. Over time, continued urbanisation of natural floodplains has caused great annual losses of both wealth and human life. In this way, in many countries and regions of the World, floods are the most costly hazards in terms of both loss of human lives and material damage.

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  1. Directorate General XII Science, Research and Development, European Commission, Rue de la Loi 200, 1049, Brussels, Belgium

    Riccardo Casale

  2. ENEA CR Casaccia, Via Anguillarese, 301, 00060, S. Maria di Galeria (Rome), Italy

    Claudio Margottini

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Fattorelli, S., Fontana, G.D., Da Ros, D. (1999). Flood Hazard Assessment and Mitigation. In: Casale, R., Margottini, C. (eds) Floods and Landslides: Integrated Risk Assessment. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58609-5_2

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