Print Email Facebook Twitter Issues and challenges in flood risk management: Editorial for the special issue on flood risk management Title Issues and challenges in flood risk management: Editorial for the special issue on flood risk management Author Jonkman, S.N. Dawson, R.J. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2012-10-12 Abstract Recent flood-related disasters (Japan, Thailand, US, Australia) emphasize the need for an effective management of flood risks. As an introduction to this special issue, this editorial summarizes some of the key challenges in the field. Flood risk management needs to recognize the interconnections between infrastructures, economic systems and the role of human factors in assessing and managing the risk. The challenge for flood management in the future is to develop robust and resilient solutions that perform well in uncertain future conditions Subject flood managementflood riskchallenges To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b2b34488-ce18-4f42-89d9-4d62f6992e8e Publisher MDPI ISSN 2073-4441 Source Water, 4 (4), 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2012 Jonkman, S.N.Dawson, R.J.licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Files PDF 285370.pdf 160.05 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b2b34488-ce18-4f42-89d9-4d62f6992e8e/datastream/OBJ/view