

Kleinertz, 1977, Schwarz, 2005) and covers most periods contemporary with the floods listed in Table 1. Due to the long history of the city of Cologne, this material has already been compiled in several reviews (e.g. This PhD dissertation investigates flood risk perception and communication amongst key institutional stakeholders involved in flood risk management in the different cultural settings of China and Germany. The reconstruction of the inundated floodplain area is based on data from historic maps, etchings and drawings.

The effectiveness of the system was evident. To put that in context, it is six times higher than the. The barrier protected the district of Rodenkirchen and its 3,300 inhabitants during five days and nights. Among the worst-hit parts of Germany, the area of the city of Cologne known as Köln-Stammheim saw more than 153mm of rain on 14 July.

(Some files may be inaccessible until you login with your UNU Collections credentials)įlood risk perception and communication within risk management in different cultural contexts: a comparative study between Wuhan, China, and Cologne, Germany. In Cologne 500m of the Geodesign 0.95 m Flood Barrier was assembled in a few hours, when the river Rhine broke its banks.
