Climate change, flood risk and adaptation measures: Challenges in assessing damage and evaluating of measures

Abstract

Floods generate a considerable risk to human wellbeing due to the great impacts they cause. This is the reason behind the plans developed by different institutions that have the objective of improving alert and prevention systems. This improvement requires information as precise as possible about the risks population and environment are facing, risks that are defined as the combination of the probability of a certain event and the damage it would cause. This study has therefore the aim of helping the development of different methodologies capable of making easier the analysis of risk. In order to achieve this objective, it examines various studies performed in this context, with the intention of extracting methodological guidelines to be used in future projects in basins and coastal areas. © 2020 Servicio Central Publicaciones. Gobierno vasco.