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Flood Risk Management
. Ed(S): Schanze, Jochen (Leibniz Institute Of Ecological And Regional Development (Ioer)); Zeman, Evzen; Marsalek, Jiri
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Paperback. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Flood Risk Management - Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures, Ostrov, Czech Republic, from 6 to 10 October 2004 Editor(s): Schanze, Jochen (Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER)); Zeman, Evzen; Marsalek, Jiri. Series: NATO Science Series IV. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPQD; TNFL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 483.
Floods are of increasing public concern world-wide due to increasing damages and unacceptably high numbers of injuries. Previous approaches of flood protection led to limited success especially during recent extreme events. Therefore, an integrated flood risk management is required which takes into consideration both the hydrometeorogical and the societal processes. Moreover, real effects of risk mitigation measures have to be critically assessed. The book draws a comprehensive picture of all these aspects and their interrelations. It furthermore provides a lot of detail on earth observation, flood hazard modelling, climate change, flood forecasting, modelling vulnerability, mitigation measures and the various dimensions ... Read more
Floods are of increasing public concern world-wide due to increasing damages and unacceptably high numbers of injuries. Previous approaches of flood protection led to limited success especially during recent extreme events. Therefore, an integrated flood risk management is required which takes into consideration both the hydrometeorogical and the societal processes. Moreover, real effects of risk mitigation measures have to be critically assessed. The book draws a comprehensive picture of all these aspects and their interrelations. It furthermore provides a lot of detail on earth observation, flood hazard modelling, climate change, flood forecasting, modelling vulnerability, mitigation measures and the various dimensions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Series
NATO Science Series IV
Number of Pages
319
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402045974
SKU
V9781402045974
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Ref
99-15
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