Decision Support Methods for Assessing Flood Risk and Vulnerability

✍ Scribed by Ahmed Karmaoui

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 358
• Series: Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Each year, floods cause an enormous amount of global economic and social damage, impacting transportation systems, water supplies, agriculture, and health. Response management to catastrophic floods require increased measures involving integrated planning, adaptation, and recovery strategies in order to protect against human loss.

Decision Support Methods for Assessing Flood Risk and Vulnerability is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application of effective models and tools focused on the diagnosis of vulnerability to flooding risks and evaluates and measures the impact of floods on socio-economic wellbeing. While highlighting topics such as hydrological events, soil erosion, and flood vulnerability, this publication explores methods of identifying appropriate adaptation strategies. This book is ideally designed for researchers, students, academicians, policymakers, government officials, and technology developers seeking current empirical research findings to be used to improve the overall understanding of the flood phenomenon.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Book Series
Table of Contents
Detailed Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgment
Section 1: Flood Vulnerability, Risk, Exposure, Susceptibility, and Resilience
Chapter 1: Flood Vulnerability, Risk, and Susceptibility Assessment
Chapter 2: Composite Indicators as Decision Support Method for Flood Analysis
Chapter 3: Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Communities
Section 2: Floods and Associated Hydrologic Events
Chapter 4: General Review of Calibration Process of Nonlinear Muskingum Model and Its Optimization by Up-to-Date Methods
Chapter 5: Flood Frequency Analysis Using Bayesian Paradigm
Chapter 6: Flood Modelling and Mapping
Chapter 7: Quantification and Evaluation of Water Erosion
Chapter 8: Hydrologic Modeling Using SWAT
Chapter 9: Hydraulic Modeling of Oued El Jawaher Using HEC-RAS Model for Flood Protection
Section 3: Climate Change, Natural Hazards, and Anthropogenic Impacts
Chapter 10: Flood Hazard Casting and Predictions of Climate Change Impressions
Chapter 11: Climate Change-Induced Flood Disaster Policy Communication Issues for Local Community Adaptation Resilience Management in Uganda
Chapter 12: Environmental Hazards Assessment at Pre-Saharan Local Scale
Chapter 13: Vulnerability of Forest Vegetation Due to Anthropogenic Disturbances in Western Himalayan Region of India
Compilation of References
About the Contributors
Index