TY  - GEN
A1  - Rözer, Viktor
A1  - Müller, Meike
A1  - Bubeck, Philip
A1  - Kienzler, Sarah
A1  - Thieken, Annegret
A1  - Pech, Ina
A1  - Schröter, Kai
A1  - Buchholz, Oliver
A1  - Kreibich, Heidi
T1  - Coping with pluvial floods by private households
N2  - Pluvial floods have caused severe damage to urban areas in recent years. With a projected increase in extreme precipitation as well as an ongoing urbanization, pluvial flood damage is expected to increase in the future. Therefore, further insights, especially on the adverse consequences of pluvial floods and their mitigation, are needed. To gain more knowledge, empirical damage data from three different pluvial flood events in Germany were collected through computer-aided telephone interviews. Pluvial flood awareness as well as flood experience were found to be low before the respective flood events. The level of private precaution increased considerably after all events, but is mainly focused on measures that are easy to implement. Lower inundation depths, smaller potential losses as compared with fluvial floods, as well as the fact that pluvial flooding may occur everywhere, are expected to cause a shift in damage mitigation from precaution to emergency response. However, an effective implementation of emergency measures was constrained by a low dissemination of early warnings in the study areas. Further improvements of early warning systems including dissemination as well as a rise in pluvial flood preparedness are important to reduce future pluvial flood damage.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 355 
KW  - pluvial floods
KW  - surface water flooding
KW  - emergency response
KW  - early warning
KW  - preparedness
KW  - damage
KW  - mitigation
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-400465
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rözer, Viktor
A1  - Müller, Meike
A1  - Bubeck, Philip
A1  - Kienzler, Sarah
A1  - Thieken, Annegret
A1  - Pech, Ina
A1  - Schröter, Kai
A1  - Buchholz, Oliver
A1  - Kreibich, Heidi
T1  - Coping with Pluvial Floods by Private Households
JF  - Water
N2  - Pluvial floods have caused severe damage to urban areas in recent years. With a projected increase in extreme precipitation as well as an ongoing urbanization, pluvial flood damage is expected to increase in the future. Therefore, further insights, especially on the adverse consequences of pluvial floods and their mitigation, are needed. To gain more knowledge, empirical damage data from three different pluvial flood events in Germany were collected through computer-aided telephone interviews. Pluvial flood awareness as well as flood experience were found to be low before the respective flood events. The level of private precaution increased considerably after all events, but is mainly focused on measures that are easy to implement. Lower inundation depths, smaller potential losses as compared with fluvial floods, as well as the fact that pluvial flooding may occur everywhere, are expected to cause a shift in damage mitigation from precaution to emergency response. However, an effective implementation of emergency measures was constrained by a low dissemination of early warnings in the study areas. Further improvements of early warning systems including dissemination as well as a rise in pluvial flood preparedness are important to reduce future pluvial flood damage.
KW  - pluvial floods
KW  - surface water flooding
KW  - emergency response
KW  - early warning
KW  - preparedness
KW  - damage
KW  - mitigation
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/w8070304
SN  - 2073-4441
VL  - 8
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kienzler, Sarah
A1  - Pech, Ina
A1  - Kreibich, Heidi
A1  - Mueller, M.
A1  - Thieken, Annegret
T1  - After the extreme flood in 2002: changes in preparedness, response and recovery of flood-affected residents in Germany between 2005 and 2011
JF  - Natural hazards and earth system sciences
N2  - After the flood in 2002, the level of private precautions taken increased considerably. One contributing factor is the fact that, in general, a larger proportion of people knew that they were at risk of flooding. The best level of precaution was found before the flood events in 2006 and 2011. The main reason for this might be that residents had more experience with flooding than residents affected in 2005 or 2010. Yet, overall, flood experience and knowledge did not necessarily result in building retrofitting or flood-proofing measures, which are considered as mitigating damages most effectively. Hence, investments still need to be stimulated in order to reduce future damage more efficiently.
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-505-2015
SN  - 1561-8633
VL  - 15
IS  - 3
SP  - 505
EP  - 526
PB  - Copernicus
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -