Flood risk analysis study at the German Bight Coast The 2007
report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC
2007) made evident that an ongoing global climate change will
cause increased storminess and sea level rise in coastal zones.
There is little doubt that the North Sea will also be affected
by an accelerating rise of the sea-level, an increase in extreme
weather events and a greater tidal range. In order to be
prepared for future conditions, prevention measures have to be
improved and methodologies to assess and manage upcoming risks
have to be further developed. As there are still deficits in
assessing the full range of flood impacts, new approaches have
been developed for hazard analysis, vulnerability assessment,
and flood risk management in the framework of the EU-project
FLOODsite. In order to apply some of these new methodologies, a
pilot site application was conducted for the community of St.
Peter-Ording at the German North Sea Coast combining failure
probabilities of the coastal d