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Flood damage prevention --- Flood forecasting --- Risk assessment --- Floodplain management --- International cooperation

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This important study focuses on the way in which structures and materials can be best designed to absorb kinetic energy in a controllable and predictable manner. Understanding of energy absorption of structures and materials is important in calculating the damage to structures caused by accidental collision, assessing the residual strength of structures after initial damage and in designing packaging to protect its contents in the event of impact. Whilst a great deal of recent research has taken place into the energy absorption behaviour of structures and materials and significant progress has been made, this knowledge is diffuse and widely scattered. This book offers a synthesis of the most recent developments and forms a detailed and comprehensive view of the area. It is an essential reference for all engineers concerned with materials engineering in relation to the theory of plasticity, structural mechanics and impact dynamics.

Strength of materials. --- Structural dynamics. --- Engineering --- Automobile and Transportation --- Buildings --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Building dynamics --- Dynamics, Structural --- Structural vibration --- Strains and stresses --- Structural analysis (Engineering) --- Architectural engineering --- Engineering, Architectural --- Materials, Strength of --- Resistance of materials --- Building materials --- Flexure --- Mechanics --- Testing --- Elasticity --- Graphic statics --- Protection. --- Damage prevention --- Impact

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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