… such as floods, droughts, and freezes. Flash floods in confined basins create notable impacts
on property and cause most flood-related deaths… Storms producing flash floods typically
produce 20-45 cm of rain in a few hours, a rare climate extreme rated as an event expected to …

… flood-related presidential disaster declarations from 1965 to 1997. It compares the annual
number of flood-related declarations to measures of precipitation and flood … This paper
discusses the significance of these findings in the context of national policies governing floods and …

… Conceptually, it may be possible to draw a distinction between climate impacts and climate
change impacts. In practice, … flood-related concerns that mitigation responses will help them
to deal with only those floods caused by climate change, not those resulting from other climate …

… climate adaptation, but may be described as plant breeding and selection, flood-risk reduction,
public health care, and so on. Developing countries have many opportunities to integrate
climate … continuing to expand, recently to the flood risks in the UK (8). Previously uninsured …

… need to recognize the influences of climate, population growth, land use, and policy on
trends in damage. An increase in flood damage due to changing climate would probably require
different policy actions than would damage increases due to implementation of flood policies. …

… of floods was expanded to include the possibility of human adjustments to floods. Engineering,
it was learned, would not be the sole solution to the nation's flood … misuse of weather and
climate forecasts, knowledge of the use and misuse of flood forecasts remains primitive. Four …

… the portion of the increase in damages that might be attributed to climate change due to
GHG emissions…In the near future the quantitative link (attribution) of trends in storm and flood
losses to climate changes related to GHG emissions is unlikely to be answered unequivocally. …

… But trends in most related weather and climate extremes do not show comparable increases
… Flood damages and fatalities have generally increased in the last 25 years. While some …
Flood damages and fatalities have generally increased in the last 25 years. While some have …

… This problem was highlighted with great honesty by a GEF [Global Environment Facility]
project director who said that … flood prevention, the GEF would only be able to finance a portion
proportional to the additional harm that floods have caused or will cause as a result of climate …

… Projections of future climate and its impacts on society and the environment have been crucial
for the emergence of climate change as a global problem for public policy and decision-making.
Climate projections are based on a variety of scenarios, models and simulations …