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Floods: Physical Processes and Human Impacts - Couverture rigide

Smith, Keith; Ward, Roy

 
9780471952480: Floods: Physical Processes and Human Impacts
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0471952486 ISBN 13 : 9780471952480
Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998

Synopsis

This book is concerned with the causes and consequences of river and coastal floods and the ways in which people can respond to the flood hazard. Individual chapters address issues such as floods as natural hazards; impacts and interpretations of flood hazard; causes, spatial characteristics and form of river floods and coastal floods; flood estimation; flood defence; flood forecasting and warning; other responses including land use planning and insurance; and a concluding discussion of problems, policies and prospects. Floods has been written by two experienced and successful authors whose complementary skills are combined to give a broad, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the subject which can be used not only as a text book or learning manual but also as an authoritative reference source. This has been achieved by organising and structuring the material to demonstrate the continuity and linkages between the causes and impacts of flooding and the many possible responses to the flood hazard. At the same time the book ensures that discussion of each of the main themes and topics is, as far as is practicable, self-contained. The book is timely in several aspects. It addresses the topicality and universality of floods which are an increasing hazard at a time of global environmental change (climate, land use, population distribution etc.). It also offers the layman and practitioner alike a synthesis and clarification of many individual research efforts near the close of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.

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À propos de l'auteur

Keith Smith is the author of Floods: Physical Processes and Human Impacts, published by Wiley.

Roy Ward is the author of Floods: Physical Processes and Human Impacts, published by Wiley.

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Éditeur
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0471952486
ISBN 13 
9780471952480
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible