Frontiers in Flood Research
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Author(s): I. Tchiguirinskaia, K. Ni Ni Thein and P. Hubert
Publisher: IAHS
ISBN: 1901502535
Format: softback
212pp
Price: £47.00
Review Date: 04 June 2007
Review: Major floods are the most costly and chronic natural hazards in many countries. This book has papers, both in French and English, from the eight Kovaks Colloquium, held at UNESCO’s headquarters in 2005. There are papers on: Trends in river floods; Geomorphic flood research; Aquifer recharging by floods in temporary streams; Engineering and technical aspects of managing floods; Hydrological monitoring and flood management in China; Issues in flood forecasting; Urban floods in America; Flood pulses and river system robustness; Social perspective of flood research; The cost and financing of flood damage; Integrated flood management; The International Center for Water hazards and Risk management (ICHARM) call for alliance for localism to manage the risk of flood-related disaster; and Katrina – What went wrong and how to fix it.