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Floods cause enormous economic damage, as well as loss of life, and the tendency is increasing throughout Europe as evident from many sources (e.g. EM-DAT, 2004). Floods represent, however, a natural phase of river flow regimes and a flood hazard cannot be eliminated. It is the vulnerability of the society that should be assessed instead. In the last two decades “resilience” has become the buzzword (World Disasters Report, 2004). As it is not possible to provide total flood safety using even most advanced technical measures, it is of vital importance to learn how to live with floods by means of better preparedness; better forecasts; better spatial planning; better perception of flood hazard; and retrofitting.
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Krasovskaia, I., Ibrekk, A.S., Gottschalk, L., Berg, H. (2010). Perception and Communication of Flood Risk: Preliminary Results from the FLOWS Project. In: Integrated Watershed Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3769-5_19
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