Flood Risk Management

This course introduces the participants to the state-of-the-art concepts and practices of flood risk management. It covers the European experience in managing floods and stresses in the use of the latest tools in flood risk management.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand and apply the main principles of flood risk management; conceptualise and apply the main principles of flood risk assessment
• Understand the Hydroinformatics tools available for flood risk management
• Conceptualise the main principles of EU flood directive and have knowledge about European experience in flood risk management
• Understand and explain the main principles of flood forecasting and warning and uncertainty issues associated with flood forecasts
• Utilise their hands-on experience in the step-by-step modelling procedure to build flood inundation models