Flood risk assessment and management
By: edited by S. Mambretti
Series: Safety & security engineering series; Safety & security engineering series
Publisher: WIT Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Southampton; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9781845646462; 9781845646479
Subjects: Floods; Flood control; Congresses; Risk assessment; Flood damage prevention
Notes: "The present volume contains selected papers presented at the conferences organized by the Wessex Institute of Technology"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Flood risk assessment in the Hornád and Bodrog river basins, Slovakia  -- M. Zeleňáková; title: Mathematical models in flood management: overview, laboratory tests and case study  -- D. De Wrachien & S. Mambretti; title: Effects of topographic data resolution and spatial model resolution on hydraulic and hydro-morphological models for flood risk assessment  -- E. Frank, G. Sofia & S. Fattorelli; title: An investigation of the relationship between perceptions of social responsibility and community resilience to flood  -- A. Mullins & R. Soetanto; title: Decision-making methods for operational flood management  -- K.A. Wojciechowska; title: European and Chinese integrated river basin management: experiences and perspectives  -- W. Ravesteijn, X. Song & R. Wennersten; title: On the advantage of using risk curves to assess flood protection measures  -- B. Dewals, S. Detrembleur, P. Archambeau, S. Erpicum & M. Pirotton; title: Real-time environmental information for the public and public safety organisations in case of flood events  -- S. Gottwald & P. Hasenfuss; title: Alternatives in flood protection: the effect of decentralized measures in the Upper Flöha watershed (Southeastern Germany)  -- Ch. Reinhardt, J. Bölscher, R. Imjela, M. Ramelow, R. Wenzel & A. Schulte; title: Psychological factors affecting flood coping strategies  -- C.B. Rose, K. Manktelow, C.A. Booth & D.G. Proverbs; title: A model for simulating event scenarios and estimating expected economic losses for the residential buildings: preliminary results  -- F. Luino, G. Nigrelli, M. Chiarle, M. Biddoccu & C.G. Cirio; title: Flooding tendencies for the city of Ensenada, Baja, California, Mexico, 1948-2004 -- J. Soares, R. Blanco, G. García, E. Inzunza & P. Rousseau.