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Extreme floods are essentially natural hazards that occur at a relatively low frequency. Excessive precipitation is, in most cases, the main cause of catastrophic floods. However, anthropogenic factors, such as human occupation of floodways, extensive urbanization, and structural measures to mitigate floods (flood levees and walls, cutting of the river meanders, river training) have modified the natural characteristics of extreme floods [14,18]. Recent catastrophic flood events both in Europe and the USA have shown that human activities and traditional river engineering works may result in an increase in the frequency of extreme floods, of the water stage and, most importantly, of negative economic consequences such as loss of property and human life.
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Ganoulis, J. (2001). A Hydro-Social Modeling Approach for Flash Flooding Alleviation. In: Gruntfest, E., Handmer, J. (eds) Coping With Flash Floods. NATO Science Series, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0918-8_9
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