Floods and Flood Management

✍ Scribed by D. M. Sargent (auth.), A. J. Saul (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 584
Series: Fluid Mechanics and its Applications 15
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In recent years there have been a number of catastrophic floods that have resulted in a tragic loss of life. These natural disasters highlight the need to further understand the occurrence phenomena, to improve forecasting techniques, and to develop procedures and contingency plans to minimise the flood impact.
This volume contains contributions from the 3rd International Conference on Floods and Flood Management held in Florence in November 1992. The volume is timely and provides an important overview for engineers, scientists, managers and researchers of the latest developments in technology, analysis and management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-lx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Flood Management in Rockhampton, Australia....Pages 3-15
Standards of Service for Flood Defence....Pages 17-37
Formulation of Basin Management Plans for the Northern New Territories, Hong Kong....Pages 39-48
Catchment Management Planning in the National Rivers Authority of England and Wales....Pages 49-68
Washland Management in the Ouse Washes Conservation Area....Pages 69-89
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) and Policy Analysis as Tools on for Combatting Flooding in the Netherlands....Pages 91-103
Incorporating expert decision support systems with traditional decision approaches of managers for improved flood control....Pages 105-108
FLOOD -Computer System and its Implementation....Pages 109-117
Fluvial Flooding : Decision Making in Floodplain Management....Pages 119-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Analysis and use of peaks-over-threshold data in flood estimation....Pages 131-143
Flood frequency of the world’s largest catchments....Pages 145-156
Sensitivity of a Semidistributed Hydrologic Model to Rainfall Estimation Accuracy....Pages 157-168
Multipurpose Mathematical Model for Flood Management Studies and Real Time Control....Pages 169-185
Management of the Aire and Calder Washlands -Performance Evaluation and Optimisation by Numerical Modelling....Pages 187-209
Mathematical Modelling of the River Beam....Pages 211-222
Digital Ground Models in Hydro-Environmental Engineering....Pages 223-230
Survey and Characteristics of the Submersion Wave due to the Sudden Opening of the Bottom Outlet of Alto Mora Dam (Italy)....Pages 231-246
2-D Dam-Break Flooding Waves Comparison between Experimental and Calculated Results....Pages 247-260
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Title: An Information System for Flood Early Warning....Pages 263-289
Construction and Assessment of Flood Forecasting Scenarios in the Hydrological Forecasting System HFS/SPH....Pages 291-312
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
From Real-Time Flood Forecasting to Comprehensive Flood Risk Management Decision Support Systems....Pages 313-326
Integrating Forecast Effects and Operational Behaviour in Designing the Rotterdam Storm Surge Barrier....Pages 327-339
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Flood vulnerability analysis and climatic change: Towards a European methodology....Pages 343-361
Analysis of Individual Real-Time Responses to Flooding and Influence on Damage to Households....Pages 363-387
Multisensor Analysis of the Flood Event of November 23–25th, 1987 on the Arno Basin....Pages 389-404
Flood Risk Analysis by Finite Element Simulation -A Case Study....Pages 405-417
Reducing Flood Risks....Pages 419-435
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
How can Shrewsbury be Protected from Floods?....Pages 439-450
The Possibility of an Integrated Approach to the Provision of Storage in the Thames Region of the National Rivers Authority....Pages 451-465
Flood Protection on Headwater Streams....Pages 467-473
Front Matter....Pages 475-475
Two-Stage Channels: Flow Coherence and Interactions....Pages 477-490
Vegetated Streams in the Context of Flood Damage....Pages 491-498
A Case Study of Flood Management by a Cascade System of Reservoirs....Pages 499-508
Third International Conference on Floods and Flood Management....Pages 509-529
WAVE -The Example of the Operational Management of Flood Defence Multireservoir System....Pages 531-543
Back Matter....Pages 545-551

✦ Subjects

Engineering Fluid Dynamics;Hydrogeology;Environmental Management;Mechanics

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