Flood Risk & Flood Management Hardback
by Tommy S W Wong
Hardback
Description
Even with all the advances in technologies, humans continue to suffer from the consequences of flooding century after century.
This book covers two pertinent topics: flood risk and flood management.
Experts world-wide share their knowledge on these topics and highlight solutions to the flooding problems in the 21st century.
Topics discussed in this book include spatial explicit multi-criteria flood risk; identification of social obstacles in solving flooding problems in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina; participative planning processes in flood risk management and in integrated watershed management; new economic instrument for integrated management of muddy flow risks; flood hazard mapping using hydrodynamic modelling approach; and simulation of flood reduction by means of complex structural measures using hydrodynamic modelling and aerial photogrammetry-derived digital surface model (DSM).
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:265 pages
- Publisher:Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Publication Date:23/08/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781620812204
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:265 pages
- Publisher:Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Publication Date:23/08/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781620812204