标题：Invited perspectives: When research meets practice: challenges, opportunities, and suggestions from the implementation of the Floods Directive in the largest Italian river basin
摘要：Flood damage assessment is a non-consolidated challenging practice for river district authorities (European Commission, 2016, 2021), which, however, are required to produce flood damage and risk maps to accomplish with the European “Floods Directive”. On the other hand, no consolidated standard is available for such evaluations as flood damage assessment is still an immature topic in scientific debate (Handmer, 2002; Messner and Meyer, 2006; Merz et al., 2010; Gerl et al., 2016; Molinari et al., 2019). In such a context, this paper reports challenges, opportunities, and perspectives that came to light during the current revision of flood risk maps and flood risk management plans (FRMPs) in the Po River District (northern Italy; Fig. 1), with specific reference to flood damage assessment.
