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Summary:

Abstract: "This book examines the impact of floods on social, economic, ecologic, and physical infrastructures"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Section 1. Flood vulnerability, risk, exposure, susceptibility, and resilience. Chapter 1. Flood vulnerability, risk, and susceptibility assessment: flood risk management ; Chapter 2. Composite indicators as decision support method for flood analysis: flood vulnerability index category ; 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: a case study from Pakistan ; Chapter 6. Flood modelling and mapping: case study on Adyar River Basin, Chennai, India ; Chapter 7. Quantification and evaluation of water erosion: application of the model SDR invest in the Ziz Basin in South-East Morocco ; Chapter 8. Hydrologic modeling using SWAT: test the capacity of SWAT model to simulate the hydrological behavior of watershed in semi-arid climate ; 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: climate information services for effective national flood risk assessment decision communication ; Chapter 12. Environmental hazards assessment at pre-saharan local scale: case study from the Draa Valley, Morocco ; Chapter 13. Vulnerability of forest vegetation due to anthropogenic disturbances in Western Himalayan Region of India.

Contributors:

Karmaoui, Ahmed, 1982- , editor

IGI Global , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Flood damage — Risk assessment

Floods — Economic aspects

Climatic changes

Decision support systems

Flood damage

Risk assessment

Floods

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (IGI Global, viewed 07/32/2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HD1675 .D43 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781522597711 (h/c) [Invalid]
9781522597735 (eISBN)
9781522597728 (s/c) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9771-1

OCLC Numbers:

1111720757

Other Control Numbers:

slc20869989 (source: CaBNVSL)
[Unknown Type]: igi00223461