Flood-risk assessment and hazard mitigation mesures : case studies and lessons learnt in Italy

The effect of climate change and the growing world population are together increaing both the chance of flooding and the consequences. In Italy , in the wake of the floods that plagued the northen part of the country in the fifties and sixties ,a process was set in motion aimed at developing a new integrated approach to water management, at the catchment level,suitable for coping with water related disasters.In this context,three case-studies of flood risk management and hazard assessment are described.