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Flood Risk and Flood Management, PDF eBook

Flood Risk and Flood Management PDF

Edited by Tommy S.W Wong

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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 worldwide 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 multicriteria 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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