What makes flood events significant for the European policies? An analysis of threshold-based criteria
18 Dec 2013
Tiberiu Ichim
Summary
This Technical Paper analyses the flood events in Europe (the 33 member countries and 6 cooperating countries of the European Environmental Agency) since 2000 and examines how many of them would satisfy the various threshold criteria applied or proposed by European policies and literature.
Author: Jaroslav Mysiak (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change - CMCC).
Co-authors: Fabio Farinosi (CMCC), Wouter Vanneuville (EEA)
Reviewers: Mikko Huokuna (Finnish Environment Institute SYKE), Volker Meyer (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ)
Published by: ETC/CCA, Bologna, IT, December 2013
See also previous EEA–JRC–ETC/CCA Joint Technical Paper: Towards a potential European flood impact database.
