Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice : Extended Abstracts Volume (332 pages) + full paper CD-ROM (1772 pages)

Paul Samuels

ISBN 10: 041548507X / ISBN 13: 9780415485074

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Okt 2008, 2008

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Neuware - 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, flood defense infrastructure and assets, environmental impacts, human and social impacts, vulnerability and resilience, risk sharing, equity and social justice, and, civil contingency planning and emergency management.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice : Extended Abstracts Volume (332 pages) + full paper CD-ROM (1772 pages)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Okt 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041548507X
• ISBN 13: 9780415485074
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 180H x 24D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 180 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 758 grams

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Synopsis

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. Across the European Union, flood management policy is changing in response to the EU Directive on the assessment and management of flood risks, which requires a move from flood protection and defence to comprehensive flood risk management.

Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice includes about 200 contributions from the international conference FLOODrisk 2008 (Oxford, UK, 30 September – 2 October 2008). FLOODrisk 2008 was an initiative of the FLOODsite research project on Integrated Flood Risk Analysis and Management Methodologies. FLOODsite was a major “Integrated Project” in the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme; contract number GOCE-CT-2004-505420. The conference provided a forum for leading researchers, flood risk managers, policy makers and practitioners from government, commercial and research organisations to gain an overview of advances in this important subject. Flood risk management practice crosses several professions and disciplines and these are represented in the breadth of the scope of the conference and these proceedings. The conference covered all aspects of flood risk: the causes of floods, their impacts on people, property and the environment, and portfolios of risk management measuresm, while the principal themes included: climate change, estimation of extremes, flash floods, flood forecasting and warning, inundation modelling, systems analysis, uncertainty, international programmes, flood defence infrastructure and assets, environmental impacts, human and social impacts, vulnerability and resilience, risk sharing, equity and social justice, and, civil contingency planning and emergency management.

Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice will be of interest to an international readership, ranging from authorities, consultants and engineers involved in flood management; researchers, post graduate lecturers and students, to policy makers, particularly at national level.

About the Author

Paul Samuels, Stephen Huntington, William Allsop, Jackie Harrop