Riverine Flood Hazard: Part A. Types, Processes and Causative Factors
Riverine Flood Hazard
Keywords:
Return period, flood discharge, climate change, sediment transport, flood power, palaeoflood, flood management, statistical hydrology
Abstract
Floods are one of the most severe natural hazards. Natural and anthropogenic climate change and a changing landscape have the potential to exacerbate flood impacts. An in-depth understanding of flood types, processes and causative factors is essential in planning effective flood management strategies. The understanding of palaeofloods, often in conjunction with traditional analyses of flood frequency and magnitude, can also unravel changes related to flood hazard. The new flood management strategies need inclusion of non-structural measures on the basis of basin to reach scale processes for sustainable management of flood hazard but to be effective should be based on an understanding of flood dynamics. The focus of what follows is on flood dynamics and causes.
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