Towards a potential European flood impact database

This report calls for a potential European Flood Impact Database which could be built to advise, and draw knowledge from, the implementation of the EU Floods Directive.
Europe is increasingly affected by by natural hazard events, notably floods, causing large but insufficiently understood and documented losses. Societal vulnerability is a key driver behind rising losses. The existing global and national disaster impact databases are ill-suited for advising the EU natural hazard, civil protection, and climate adaptation policies. For these reasons there is a scope for a concerted action at the European level.