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.