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Flood damage prevention. --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- City planning --- Flood control --- Floods --- Hazard mitigation
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Flood damage prevention. --- Flood forecasting. --- Floods --- Hydrological forecasting --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- City planning --- Flood control --- Hazard mitigation --- Forecasting
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Hurricane protection --- Flood control --- Flood damage prevention --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- City planning --- Floods --- Hazard mitigation --- Flood prevention --- Prevention of floods --- Rivers --- Forest influences --- Hurricane control --- Hurricane rehabilitation, Long-range --- Hurricanes --- Regional planning --- Prevention --- Regulation
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"Flood Risk Change: A Complexity Perspective focuses on the dynamic nature of flood risks and follows a systemic approach - including environmental, socioeconomic and socio-technical factors for modeling and managing flood risk change. Readers will gain a more complete picture of the topic for understanding the complexity of flood risk change, both from human and natural causes of flooding. The book includes a mix of theory (introduction to complex system science from the flood risk management perspective) and case studies. It features maps and figures focusing on the system components as well as on the dynamic interactions between the drivers of change."--
Flood control. --- Flood damage prevention. --- Flood forecasting --- Floods --- Hydrological forecasting --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- City planning --- Flood control --- Hazard mitigation --- Flood prevention --- Prevention of floods --- Rivers --- Forest influences --- Mathematical models. --- Forecasting --- Prevention --- Regulation
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Engineering sciences. Technology --- System Analysis --- Theses --- System analysis. --- Flood damage prevention. --- Drought management. --- Management of droughts --- Hazard mitigation --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- City planning --- Flood control --- Floods --- Network analysis --- Network science --- Network theory --- Systems analysis --- System theory --- Mathematical optimization
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In this book, contributions from several experts specializing in the area of flood risk management are assembled into a single volume. Application and testing of numerical and statistical models that can simulate the complex reality along with effective flood management strategies that are being implemented in various nations are presented. This collection of topics will provide an update to the reader as to the state of the art in this important technical field.
Flood damage prevention. --- Floodplain management. --- Risk assessment. --- Analysis, Risk --- Assessment, Risk --- Risk analysis --- Risk evaluation --- Evaluation --- Flood plain management --- Management of flood plains --- Management of floodplains --- Floodplains --- Watershed management --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- City planning --- Flood control --- Floods --- Hazard mitigation --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Natural Disaster --- Earth and Planetary Sciences --- Hydrological Disaster
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Neighbourhood landscapes are the quintessential forms of urban landscapes in most cities worldwide. They are pervasive, and hence experienced by the large majority of urban dwellers in their everyday life. More than parks, nature reserves or nature areas which are visited as destinations, neighbourhood landscapes provide the most immediate, frequent and convenient form of nature experienced by urban dwellers on a daily basis. They are also valuable as social spaces to bring residents together, foster social ties, and strengthen communities. Despite their importance, surprisingly little has been written to guide the planning and design of neighbourhood landscapes. This book is written for a specific purpose, to illustrate how the design of neighbourhood landscapes helps to deliver more benefits for urban dwellers and, at the same time, protect ecosystems that facilitate human well-being. This is in turn important as the synergistic relationships between human well-being, quality of biophysical urban environment, and health of human–environment interactions fundamentally underpin urban sustainability. The authors emphasize the role neighbourhood landscapes play in forging connections between people and nature, people and people, and people and place. Most of all, the book highlights the role of focusing on people in this endeavour, as it is only when landscapes are appropriately designed, and when people recognize these benefits, that they become valued and protected as a community resource. This book is organized into two parts. Part 1 focuses on the conceptual foundations that underpin the neighbourhood landscape design guidelines being developed. In this section, the authors describe the key concepts relating functions of neighbourhood landscapes to the key urban development goals of sustainability, liveability and reliance; how they can be represented in a framework; and how a synthesis of current knowledge of cities as socio-ecological systems helps to identify principles that can guide the designing of neighbourhood landscapes. Part 2 is more application focused, and is centred on neighbourhood landscape design guidelines inspired by the concept of ecosystem services. The guidelines consist of design approaches, practical strategies, design targets and performance monitoring indicators for tracking the performance of neighbourhood landscapes. The book is written for readers in academia and design practice, and anyone who has a role in shaping neighbourhood landscapes for the benefit of urban dwellers.
Urban Landscapes --- Irrigation --- Urban Areas --- Neighbourhoods --- Environmental Education --- Aesthetic Values --- Living Spaces --- Biodiversity --- Heat Mitigation --- Noise Abatement --- Landscape Design --- Nature --- Soil Quality Maintenance --- Social Relations --- Storm and Domestic Waste Water Treatment --- Flood Hazard Mitigation --- People --- Neighbourhood Landscape --- Water Cycling --- Ecology --- Nutrient Cycling --- Landscape Development --- Green Spaces --- Landscape Services --- Erosion Control --- Recreational Spaces --- Open Spaces --- Sense of Place --- Recreation --- Typology --- Parks
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"Various modeling methodologies are available to aid planning and operational decision making: this book synthesises these, with an emphasis on methodologies applicable in data scarce regions, such as developing countries. Problems included in each chapter, and supported by links to available online data sets and modeling tools, engage the reader with practical applications of the models. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, and environmental science and hazards, and professionals and policy-makers working in hazard mitigation, remote sensing and hydrological engineering will find this an invaluable resource. This volume is the second in a collection of four books on flood disaster management theory and practice within the context of anthropogenic climate change. The others are: Floods in a Changing Climate: Extreme Precipitation by Ramesh Teegavarapu, Floods in a Changing Climate: Inundation Modelling by Giuliano Di Baldassarre and Floods in a Changing Climate: Risk Management by Slodoban Simonovic"--
Hydrologic models --- Flood forecasting. --- Flood damage prevention. --- Climatic changes --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- City planning --- Flood control --- Floods --- Hazard mitigation --- Hydrological forecasting --- Hydrological modeling --- Hydrological models --- Hydrology --- Hydrology models --- Models and modelmaking --- Remote sensing. --- Environmental aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- Forecasting --- Models --- Climatic changes. --- Global environmental change
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Natural hazard events are able to significantly affect the natural and artificial environment. In this context, changes in landforms due to natural disasters have the potential to affect and, in some cases, even restrict human interaction with the ecosystem. In order to minimize fatalities and reduce the economic impact that accompanies their occurrence, proper planning is crucial. Land use planning can play an important role in reducing current and future risks related to natural hazards. Land use changes can lead to natural hazards and vice versa: natural hazards affect land uses. Therefore, planners may take into account areas that are susceptible to natural hazards when selecting favorable locations for land use development. Appropriate land use planning can lead to the determination of safe and non-safe areas for urban activities. This Special Issue focuses on land use planning for natural hazards. In this context, various types of natural hazards, such as land degradation and desertification, coastal hazard, floods, and landslides, as well as their interactions with human activities, are presented.
sea-level rise --- storm surge --- physical vulnerability --- social vulnerability --- Peloponnese --- Greece --- urbanization --- flood --- remote sensing/GIS --- Birendranagar --- Nepal --- landslides --- geographic information system (GIS) --- frequency ratio --- density ratio --- human activities --- land use planning --- historic flood data --- old topographic maps --- GIS --- temporal and spatial distribution of flood events --- marshy areas and lakes --- flood hazard assessment --- Integrated land-use planning --- land degradation --- desertification --- policy --- phronetic approach --- n/a
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This book examines many aspects of flood risk management in a comprehensive way. As risks depend on hazard and vulnerabilities, not only geophysical tools for flood forecasting and planning are presented, but also socio-economic problems of flood management are discussed. Starting with precipitation and meteorological tools to its forecasting, hydrological models are described in their applications for operational flood forecasts, considering model uncertainties and their interactions with hydraulic and groundwater models. With regard to flood risk planning, regionalization aspects and the options to utilize historic floods are discussed. New hydrological tools for flood risk assessments for dams and reservoirs are presented. Problems and options to quantify socio-economic risks and how to consider them in multi-criteria assessments of flood risk planning are discussed. This book contributes to the contemporary efforts to reduce flood risk at the European scale. Using many real-world examples, it is useful for scientists and practitioners at different levels and with different interests.
Flood control. --- Flood damage prevention. --- Floods -- Risk assessment. --- Risk assessment. --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Flood control --- Risk assessment --- Mathematical models. --- Flood prevention --- Flood protection --- Floods --- Prevention of floods --- Analysis, Risk --- Assessment, Risk --- Risk analysis --- Risk evaluation --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Floodproofing --- Prevention --- Earth sciences. --- Hydrogeology. --- Physical geography. --- Environmental management. --- Earth Sciences. --- Environmental Management. --- Physical Geography. --- Rivers --- Forest influences --- Evaluation --- City planning --- Hazard mitigation --- Regulation --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Geohydrology --- Geology --- Hydrology --- Groundwater
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