What makes flood events significant for the European policies? An analysis of threshold-based criteria

Description

The Technical Paper provides an analysis on flood events occured in Europe (the 33 member countries and 6 cooperating countries of the European Environment Agency) since 2003. The aim of this work is to examine how many flood events satisfy the various threshold criteria applied or proposed by European policies and literature.

Reference information

Websites:

https://www.eionet.europa.eu/etcs/etc-cca/products/etc-cca-reports/tp_4-2013

Source:

ETC/CCA Technical Paper

Published in Climate-ADAPT: May 22, 2018

Date of publication:

2013

Keywords:

European policies, thresholds

Climate impacts:

Flooding

Adaptation Approaches:

Sector Policies, Adaptation Measures and Actions

Sectors:

Disaster Risk Reduction

Geographic characterisation:

Europe

Countries:

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Republic of North Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom

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