Coping with floods
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Coping with floods
(NATO ASI series, Series E,
Kluwer Academic, c1994
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Coping with Floods, Erice, Italy, Nov. 3-15, 1992"--T.p. verso
"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Floods are natural hazards whose effects can deeply affect the economic and environmental equilibria of a region. Quality of life of people living in areas close to rivers depends on both the risk that a flood would occur and the reliability of flood forecast, warning and control systems.
Tools for forecasting and mitigating floods have been developed through research in the recent past. Two innovations currently influence flood hazard mitigation, after many decades of lack of significant progress: they are the development of new technologies for real-time flood forecast and warning (based on weather radars and satellites) and a shift from structural to non-structural flood control measures, due to increased awareness of the importance of protecting the environment and the adverse impacts of hydraulic works on it.
This book is a review of research progress booked in the improvements of forecast capability and the control of floods. Mostly the book presents the results of recent research in hydrology, modern techniques of real-time forecast and warning, and ways of controlling floods for smaller impacts on the environment. A number of case studies of floods in different geographical areas are also presented.
Scientists and specialists working in fields of hydrology, environmental protection and hydraulic engineering will appreciate this book for its theoretical and practical content.
Table of Contents
- Preface. Part I: Coping with Floods in Perspective
- V. Yevjevich, G. Rossi. Part II: Hydrologic Characteristics of Floods
- R.A. Clark, D.W. Reed, J.A. Ramirez, J.D. Salas, R. Rosso, E.E. Wohl, R.D. Jarrett, F. Rossi, P. Villani, N.B. Harmanciogammalu, B. OEnoez, B. Ogammauz, S. Birikundavyi, J. Rousselle, M. Bayazit, Zhong-Min Wang, G.L. Vandewiele, C. Molina Sempere, M. del Rosario Vidal-Abarca, M. Luisa Suarez, K. Harkayi. Part III: Hydraulic Characteristics of Floods
- G. Labadie, B. Reitano, J.B. Marco, G. di Silvio, Y. Gyasi-Agyei, F.P. De Troch, P.A. Troch, P.Y. Julien. Part IV: Flood Forecast and Warning
- L. Lanza, P. la Barbera, F. Siccardi, R.A. Clark, A.D. Feldman, G.A. Schultz, C. Obled, P. Tourasse, A. Wroblewski. Part V: Impacts of Floods
- D.A. Moser, J. Gardiner, D.S. Mileti, A. Melih Yanmaz. Part VI: Measures for Coping with Floods
- V. Yevjevich, D.A. Moser, B. Reitano, G. Rossi, OE. Starosolszky, N.B. Harmancigammalu, A.D. Feldman, J. Gardiner, G.A. Schultz, J.B. Marco, A. Cayuela, E. Gruntfest, F. Nunes Correia, M. Da Graca Saraiva, L. Soczka, T.E. Mirtskhoulava, J. Ganoulis, M. Brilly, M. Smith. Index.
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