Lowering Risk by Increasing Resilience Selected Papers from 8th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM 8)

• Autres auteurs: Simonovic, Slobodan P. (Éditeur intellectuel), Karmakar, Subhankar (Éditeur intellectuel), Cheng, Zhang (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Sujets: Technology: general issues; History of engineering & technology; Conservation of buildings & building materials; flooding; storm surge; numerical modelling; high-water marks; debris; distributed hydrological model; flood forecasting; TOPKAPI; Zhenjiang River; small- and medium-sized river; OSS-SR; facilitator; flood resilience; disaster literacy; community-based; e-learning; extreme floods; disaster chain; impact assessment; flood damage; environmental impacts; unsteady flows; flood wave propagation; Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers; index-velocity method; stage-discharge method; rating curves; flood risk management; innovations; dikes; flood decision-making; knowledge uptake; historical data source; flood mapping; poorly gauged catchments; citizen science; low impact development; sea-level rise; adaptation; flood risk; water resources; low-lying coasts; extreme rain; pluvial flood; basement flood; wastewater; inflow and infiltration; Canada; flood management issues; natural disasters; climate change; government policies; flood hazard; CaMa-Flood; flood map viewer; floodplain mapping
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Résumé

The reprint identifies key concerns and significant challenges of the future as currently perceived by researchers, industry, policymakers, and other flood management stakeholders. The main themes addressed include: science and technology for flood risk management; handling data and information for flood risk management; flood disaster prevention, mitigation, and adaptation; flood preparedness, response, and recovery; flood decision-making, policy, and governance; and flood resilience.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (212 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-0365-5736-6
9783036557359
9783036557366

Accès

Open Access