Resilience and Resistance of Buildings and Built Structures to Flood Impacts

The global increase in the frequency and intensity of natural hazards as well as the rising number of victims and growing damages make the necessity of improved risk reduction at the societal level abundantly clear (UN/ISDR, 2005). We must assume that climate change will continue to exacerbate meteorological events (IPCC, 2007). At the same time, it is clear that the constantly growing intensity of settlements and concentration of material assets in endangered areas are resultingin distinctly heightened vulnerability (Munich Re Group, 2009).