Flood recovery, innovation and response / [editors] D. de Wrachien, University of Milano, Italy ; D. Proverbs, University of Wolverhampton, UK ; C.A. Brebbia, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK ; S. Mambretti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

By: Series: WIT transactions on ecology and the environment ; volume 140Publisher: Southampton, UK ; Boston : WIT Press/WIT Library, c2010Description: 314 p. : ill ; 24cmISBN:
  • 9771845641320
ISSN:
  • 1746448X(print)
  • 17433541(0nline)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.34938  23 FLO
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CONTENT

Section 1: Flood risk management vulnerable assessment and modelling special session organised by D. De Wrachien, S. Mambretti & A. Sole

Risk analysis and vulnerability assessment in flood protection and river basin management
D. De Wrachien, S. Mambretti & A. Sole
Flood risk modelling with LiFAR technology
A. S, L. Giosa, L. Nole, V. Medina & A. Beteman

Section 2: Flood risk management
Two-dimensional urban flood simulation: Fukuoka flood disaster in 1999
H. Hashimoto & K. Park

Flood management in the low lands : from probability to risk
B. Broekhans & A. F. Correlje
Etc

Section 3: Flood defence methods
Assessment of extreme discharges of the VItava River in Prague
M. Holicky, K. Jung & M.Sykora
From hazard reduction to integrated risk management: toward adaptive flood prevention in Europe
Etc

Section 4: Rehabilitation and restoration
Restoration projects and mitigation of post-flood hazards a case study on the Maruyama River in Japan
M. Takezawa, Y. Yamashiki, H. Goth
The industrialization of UK flood damage repairs
T. Boobier
Etc

Section 5 : Urban flood management- innovation in building resilience special session organised by C. Zenenbergen
Adapting to climate change: using urban renewal in managing long term flood risk
C. Zenenbergen, W. Veerbeek,. B. Gersonius, J. Thrown & S. Van Herk
Integration of resiliency measures into flood risk management concepts of communities
N. Manojlovic &E. Pasche
Etc

Section 6: Coping strategies
Recent developments in loss of life and evacuation modelling for flood event management in the UK
D. Lumbroso & M. Did Mauro
Urban flood control policy for sustainability under global warming in Japan
Y Kawata
Etc

Section 7: Financial and insurance issues
Development and evaluation of FLEMOps- a new flood loss
Estimation Model for the private sector
A. H. Thieken, A. Olschewski, H. Kreibich , S. Kobsch & B. Metz
Flood insurance in the UK
A survey of the experience of floodplain residents
J. E Almond & D .G. proverbs


Includes bibliographical references and index: p.313 -314

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