Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 24, issue 11
Articles | Volume 24, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-4015-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-4015-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 24, issue 11
Invited perspectives
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26 Nov 2024
Invited perspectives | Highlight paper |  | 26 Nov 2024

Invited perspectives: safeguarding the usability and credibility of flood hazard and risk assessments

Bruno Merz, Günter Blöschl, Robert Jüpner, Heidi Kreibich, Kai Schröter, and Sergiy Vorogushyn

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The manuscript addresses an important topic of the useful and correct use of flood hazard and risk assessment approaches. It could serve as a benchmark overview of best practice and thus be of enormous value for the flood hazard community and any related application out of this. The manuscript addresses the important role of stakeholder participation, objectivity, and verifiability when assessing flood hazard and risk.
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Flood risk assessments help us decide how to reduce the risk of flooding. Since these assessments are based on probabilities, it is hard to check their accuracy by comparing them to past data. We suggest a new way to validate these assessments, making sure they are practical for real-life decisions. This approach looks at both the technical details and the real-world situations where decisions are made. We demonstrate its practicality by applying it to flood emergency planning.
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