Q. What is flood risk? 

A.
Risk can be defined as the product of probability and associated consequence, or the flood hazard (i.e. the probability of a particular flood event), the exposure of various assets to such flood and the vulnerability of various exposed assets.

For more information, please refer to "Social Aspects and Stakeholder Involvement in IFM, Section 1.3"


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