Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major atmospheric disasters that have had and continue to have major implications for many of the world’s people, such as floods and droughts. . This volume takes a geoscientific approach to the topic, while also covering current thinking about some directly relevant social scientific issues that can affect lives and property. Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters also contains new insights about how climate change affects hazardous processes. For the first time, information on the many diverse topics relevant to professionals is aggregated into one volume.
- Contains contributions from experts in the field selected by a world-renowned editorial board
- Cutting-edge discussion of natural hazard topics that affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of humans worldwide
- Numerous full-color tables, GIS maps, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs of hazardous processes in action
Author(s): Paolo Paron, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, John F. Shroder
Series: Hazards and Disasters Series
Edition: 1
Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 312
Tags: Науки о Земле;Метеорология и климатология;
Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Contributors, Pages ix-x, Konstantinos M. Andreadis, Stefano Balbi, S.F. Balica, Paul D. Bates, Gerardo Benito, Claudio Biscaro, Thom Bogaard, S. Bohms, M. Budde, Amy Dabrowa, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Andrés Díez-Herrero, Q. Dinh, Animesh K. Gain, Carlo Giupponi, Shreedhar Maskey, Vahid Mojtahed, Micah Mukolwe, Jeffrey C. Neal, I. Popescu, Magdalena Rogger, et al.
Editorial Foreword, Pages xi-xiii, John (Jack) Shroder
Foreword, Pages xv-xvi, Paul Bates
Chapter 1 - Flood Processes and Hazards, Pages 3-33, Alberto Viglione, Magdalena Rogger
Chapter 2 - Measuring and Mapping Flood Processes, Pages 35-64, Guy J.-P. Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Jeffrey C. Neal, Konstantinos M. Andreadis
Chapter 3 - Palaeoflood Hydrology: Reconstructing Rare Events and Extreme Flood Discharges, Pages 65-104, Gerardo Benito, Andrés Díez-Herrero
Chapter 4 - Global and Low-Cost Topographic Data to Support Flood Studies, Pages 105-123, Kun Yan, Jeffrey C. Neal, Dimitri P. Solomatine, Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Chapter 5 - Vulnerability and Exposure in Developed and Developing Countries: Large-Scale Assessments, Pages 125-162, S.F. Balica, Q. Dinh, I. Popescu
Chapter 6 - Integrated Risk Assessment of Water-Related Disasters, Pages 163-200, Carlo Giupponi, Vahid Mojtahed, Animesh K. Gain, Claudio Biscaro, Stefano Balbi
Chapter 7 - KULTURisk Methodology Application: Ubaye Valley (Barcelonnette, France), Pages 201-211, Micah Mukolwe, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Thom Bogaard
Chapter 8 - Floods and Storms Practical Exercises, Pages 213-229, Amy Dabrowa, Jeffrey C. Neal, Paul D. Bates
Chapter 9 - Drought Monitoring and Assessment: Remote Sensing and Modeling Approaches for the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, Pages 233-262, G.B. Senay, N.M. Velpuri, S. Bohms, M. Budde, C. Young, J. Rowland, J.P. Verdin
Chapter 10 - Hydrological Modeling for Drought Assessment, Pages 263-282, Shreedhar Maskey, Patricia Trambauer
Index, Pages 283-288
