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Sep 2026
Understanding Flood Fatalities: Reevaluating Flood Risk Management
Extraordinary flooding in July 2021 claimed 224 lives in Germany and Belgium, an unprecedented number in recent decades in both countries. To better understand the underlying causes, individual circumstances of all fatalities were analyzed based on official documents and interviews with family members. A high fraction...
A. Thieken, B. Rhein, E. Hosten et al.
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