ABSTRACT
Floods cause distress and damage wherever and whenever they happen. Flooding from rivers, estuaries and the sea threatens many millions of people worldwide and economic and insurance losses from flooding have increased significantly since 1990. Based on the work of leading researchers, this book provides an overview of advances in this important subject. It covers all aspects of flood risk including the causes of floods; their impacts on people, property and the environment; and portfolios of risk management measurement. Additional topics include climate change, estimation of extremes, flash floods, flood forecasting and warning, inundation modeling, systems analysis, uncertainty, international programs, and flood defense infrastructure and assets. The book also examines environmental, human, and social impacts; vulnerability and resilience; risk sharing; and civil contingency planning and emergency management.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section |3 pages
Keynote Presentation
section |293 pages
Technical Presentations
part |49 pages
Inundation modelling
part |12 pages
System analysis
part |12 pages
International programmes
part |36 pages
Infrastructure and assets
part |14 pages
Non-structural approaches (CRUE project)
part |20 pages
Long term planning, integrated portfolios & spatial planning
part |16 pages
Vulnerability and resilience, human and social impacts
part |16 pages
Assessment of extremes
part |15 pages
Civil contingency, emergency planning, flood event management
part |32 pages
Flood forecasting and warning
part |15 pages
Environmental impacts, morphology & sediments
part |10 pages
Risk sharing, equity and social justice
part |6 pages
Uncertainty
part |9 pages
Flash floods
part |15 pages
Risk and economic assessments
part |7 pages
Climate change