Editorial: Flood Management: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches for Data Observation, Analysis, Forecasting, and Management

Floods are one of the most damaging natural hazards. In the last 12 years (since 2010), floods and storms have resulted in over 200,000 deaths worldwide and around $2 Trillion in direct damages, affecting around 2 Billion people and leaving over 10 Million people homeless (EM-DAT, 2022). The events that have led to these impacts are distributed across all regions of the world, but disproportionately affect more vulnerable populations. Regionally, in the last 30 years, floods have caused more than US $1,280 billion loss for the world economy, affected nearly 2 billion people around the world and killed about 214,000 people (Piadeh et al., 2022). Recent literature review of research papers published between 2010 and 2020 revealed that flood mortality is a real problem worldwide, regardless of the latitude, climate or level of development of the affected country (Petrucci, 2022).

Despite significant progress on various fronts related with flood prediction and management, flood damages continue unabated in various parts of the world. Many factors drive the devastation caused by floods, including, unwise development activities, growing urbanization, people occupying unsafe floodplains, the intensification of flood hazards resulting from climate and landuse-land cover changes, etc.

The objective of the present Research Topic was to compile recent developments in different aspects of flood management from across the world. To that end, three research papers covering three different topics have been included in the research collection. The three aspects are: climate change, water storage, and flood damage assessment. All these three topics are highly relevant to flood management, and in fact cover an interesting breadth of highly topical issues in the flood management domain.