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Cascading events, technology and the Floods Directive: future challenges.

2 November 2016

A new cross-disciplinary paper has been published in the proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016).

Cascading events, technology and the Floods Directive: future challenges.

A new cross-disciplinary paper has been published in the proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016). The work is titled "Cascading events, Technology and the Floods Directive: Future Challenges" and the full document is available open access at this link. The research presents an overview of the Floods Directive and its relation with the cascading events, using case studies and examples from the existing literature to point out missing links and gaps in the legislation.