Floods, Volume 1: Risk Knowledge promotes cross disciplinary dialogue between sciences and institutions in charge of flood risk management (hydrology, hydraulic modeling, sociology, crisis management). The book offers a state-of-the-art treatment of the scientific issues around the problem of floods. Chapters are written by specialists but remain accessible to those with a general science background, students and risk managers. Establishes a state-of-the-art foundation on flood issues, from description of the phenomena to the management of risk (dikes, dams, reducing vulnerability, crisis management)Includes chapters written by specialists but accessible to the mainstream scientistProvides science-based knowledge and methodologies pertaining to each flood-related discipline INDICE: 1. Analysis of past flood events for a better flood risk management2. Impacts of floods in the world, in Europe and in France: tools and methods of Loss data collection, storage and sharing on damaging effects - indicators3. The assessment of damage after floods (economy)4. Impacts of flood on human health5. Cultural heritage and flooding6. Flood Natech Events - When a flood triggers a technological accident: Fragilities and resilience of the territory7. Rain and water gauging8. Flood hydrology: processes and their variability9. Hydraulic modelling10. Fluvial geomorphology and flood hazards: accouting for long term evolutions in the definition of flood hazard11. Hydrogeomorphology: new persepctives for its integration in flood prone zone assessment12. Hydraulic structures for flood protection and flood management13. Sea surge14. Historical flood data, flood knowledge and flood risk mitigation15. Assessing vulnerability16. Resilience as tool of flood risk assessment17. Global megacities at flood risk. From vulnerability to resilience18. Network and floods19. Climate change and flooding20. Land use management as a relevant driver of flood impacts21. Progresses and gaps in the knowledge of floods
- ISBN: 978-1-78548-268-7
- Editorial: ISTE Press - Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés