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Flood Risk Management

Class at Faculty of Science |
MZ330P134

Syllabus

Course outline  

River floods

Introduction, typology of floods

Analysis of historical floods 

Hydrological flood forecasting 

River flood modeling   

Floods in the landscape

Changes of rainfall-runoff processes in headwater areas 

Geomorphological changes of streams and floodplains due to floods

Biological succession and invasion processes triggered by floods 

Effect of floodplain modifications on flooding   

Flood risk management

Flood damage - mapping, analysis and modeling 

Nature-based solutions for flood mitigation 

Flood plans design 

Flood response and crisis management   

Workshop

Presentation of essays    

Annotation

In this course, the students will get familiar with the recent approaches to flood risk assessment and with the approaches to flood protection, control, and mitigation.

The students will get a comprehensive overview of the basic concepts of flood risk and detailed insight into its key components – hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. The course will provide information on the methods of analysis of the flood events and flood forecasting, and simulation of flood events. There are discussed recent concepts of integrated flood protection, aimed at designing efficient flood protection measures with respect to the specific requirements of a given environment with a focus on the retention potential of the landscape and the impact of stream regulations and floodplain modifications on the flood course and consequences. Special focus is paid to the management of the flood risk in urbanized areas and to the applicable tools for flood forecasting, flood protection in the urban areas, and the methods of assessment and modeling of the economic damage of flooding.

The theoretical lectures will be completed with a workshop, aimed at discussing the approaches to flood risk management on the examples, taken from the management of the flood risk during the recent extreme flood events.