Flood Damage Assessment and Management

Martina Zeleňáková is associated professor in the field of environmental engineering at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia. In the framework of her scientific-research activities she has focused on solution of water management problems, rainwater management, environmental impacts assessment and separately on the assessment of environmental risks in river basins in relation to flood events, drought and water pollution. The results of her scientific-research work have been published in national and international journals, scientific conference proceedings, proceedings of national and international conferences. She is author, editor, co-author and co-editor of educational textbooks and monographs, she has cooperated in solving of national and international projects, as the principal investigator or partner.Lenka Gaňová graduated master degree and PhD degree in the field of environmental engineering at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia. Her scientific work as well as her thesis was devoted to flood risk assessment and flood risk management. She was participating in a project implementation regarding the flood protection and she published the results of her research in scientific proceedings of national and international conferences.Daniel Constantin Diaconu works as assistant professor at the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology at University of Bucharest, Romania. He does research in hydrology focusing on flood protection, environmental sciences and integrated water resources management. He is an expert in bathymetry and limnology. The results of his scientific work have been published in journals and conference proceedings. He is participating in scientific projects mainly within Research Center for Integrated Analysis and Territorial Management (CAIMT)within the University of Bucharest.

• 1. Introduction.- 2.Flood risk assessment.- 3. Flood damage assessment.- 4. Flood risk management.- 5. Case studies.- 6. Conclusion.