Flooding claims many lives worldwide each year. In addition, many more lives are affected by homelessness, disease and crop failures as a result of floods' destructiveness. The number of recent flood events coupled with climate change predictions and urban development, suggest that these statistics are likely to worsen in the future. Flooding in populated areas can cause substantial property damage as well as threaten human life. Apart from the obvious physical damage to buildings, contents and loss of life, there other more indirect losses that are often overlooked. These intangible impacts are generally associated with disruption to normal life as well as longer term health issues, including stress-related illness. The conference papers cover the following topics: Flood Risk Management; Flood Risk Vulnerability; Emergency Preparedness and Response; Flood Forecasting; Flood Case Studies; Responses to Reduce Vulnerability to Flooding.

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Contents Section 1: Flood risk management Ontology for flood management: a proposal; Cooperation between non-governmental organizations and the State in the matter of flood risk management in the Czech Republic; The utilization of an abandoned mining pond as a retention pond in dealing with stormwater runoff Section 2: Flood risk vulnerability Flood-risk assessment of the dense downtown in Fukuoka City, Japan; Damage and loss prediction model considering inundation level, flow velocity and vulnerability of building types; On-line early warning system for evacuation of socially vulnerable population during flooding; Methodological proposal for assessment and adaptation in oil industry plants in Brazil's coastland Section 3: Emergency preparedness and response Floods emergency management: the value of potential and actual damage estimation; Flood disaster risk in Jakarta, Indonesia Section 4: Flood forecasting A multivariate model for flood forecasting of lake levels; Comparison of a data-driven model and a physical model for flood forecasting; Inflow forecasting for lakes using Artificial Neural Networks Section 5: Flood case studies Impacts and preventative measures against flooding and coastal erosion in Thailand; Ice dams and backwaters as hydrological risk phenomena - case study: the Bistrita River, upstream of the Izvorul Muntelui Lake (Romania); Analysis of runoff variation according to subbasin division Section 6: Responses to reduce vulnerability to flooding (Special session organised by J. Lamond) The role of solid waste management as a response to urban flood risk in developing countries, a case study analysis; Factors for the design of novel property-level flood resilient products: the Dado Wallboard; Towards the development of a comprehensive systematic quantification of the costs and benefits of property level flood risk adaptation; "Three times is enemy action" - flood experiences and flood perceptions; A framework for participatory assessment of vulnerability of commercial property values to flooding in the UK; Sustainable flood memories, informal knowledge and the development of community resilience to future flood risk