Flood risk management


Flood risk management aims to reduce the human and socio-economic losses caused by flooding while taking into account benefits from floods. Therefore, one important part of FRM is to analyze the relationships between physical system, the institutional framework and socio-economic environment. This covers a wide range of topics from drivers and natural processes to models, decisions and socio-economic consequences and institutional environment. These manifold relationships and topics are not completely comprehensible for actors involved in flood risk management therefore, the knowledge of current theory and practice relating to flooding and flood management, as well as the knowledge of socio-economic issues related to flooding has to visualized and made comprehensible. Such an integration of methods, models and data can be done by a flood risk management information system.