Flood Risk Science and Management
Flood Risk Science and Management provides an extensive and comprehensive synthesis of current research in flood management; providing a multi-disciplinary reference text covering a wide range of flood management topics. Its targeted readership is the international research community (from research students through to senior staff) and flood management professionals, such as engineers, planners, government officials and those with flood management responsibility in the public sector. By using the concept of case study chapters, international coverage is given to the topic, ensuring a world-wide relevance.
Content:
Chapter 1 Setting the Scene for Flood Risk Management (pages 1–16): Jim W. Hall and Edmund C. Penning?Rowsell
Chapter 2 Strategic Overview of Land Use Management in the Context of Catchment Flood Risk Management Planning (pages 17–38): Enda O'connell, John Ewen and Greg O'donnell
Chapter 3 Multiscale Impacts of Land Management on Flooding (pages 39–59): Howard S. Wheater, Neil Mcintyre, Bethanna M. Jackson, Miles R. Marshall, Caroline Ballard, Nataliya S. Bulygina, Brian Reynolds and Zoe Frogbrook
Chapter 4 Managed Realignment: A Coastal Flood Management Strategy (pages 60–86): Ian Townend, Colin Scott and Mark Dixon
Chapter 5 Accounting for Sediment in Flood Risk Management (pages 87–113): Colin Thorne, Nick Wallerstein, Philip Soar, Andrew Brookes, Duncan Wishart, David Biedenharn, Stanford Gibson, Charles Little, David Mooney, Chester C. Watson, Tony Green and Tom Coulthard
Chapter 6 A Measured Step Towards Performance?Based Visual Inspection of Flood Defence Assets (pages 114–131): Gavin Long and Michael J. Mawdesley
Chapter 7 Advances in the Remote Sensing of Precipitation Using Weather Radar (pages 133–144): Ian D. Cluckie
Chapter 8 Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Real?Time Flood FORECASTING (pages 145–162): Jonathan Lawry, Daniel R. Mcculloch, Nicholas J. Randon and Ian D. Cluckie
Chapter 9 Real?Time Updating in Flood Forecasting and Warning (pages 163–195): Peter C. Young
Chapter 10 Coupling Meteorological and Hydrological Models for Real?Time Flood Forecasting (pages 196–207): Geoff Austin, Barney Austin, Luke Sutherland?Stacey and Paul Shucksmith
Chapter 11 Data Utilization in Flood Inundation Modelling (pages 209–233): David C. Mason, Guy J?p. Schumann and Paul D. Bates
Chapter 12 Flood Inundation Modelling to Support Flood Risk Management (pages 234–257): Gareth Pender and Sylvain Ne?elz
Chapter 13 Integrated Urban Flood Modelling (pages 258–288): Adrian J. Saul, Slobodan Djordjevic, cedo Maksimovic and John Blanksby
Chapter 14 Distributed Models and Uncertainty in Flood Risk Management (pages 289–312): Keith Beven
Chapter 15 Towards the Next Generation of Risk?Based Asset Management Tools (pages 313–335): Paul B. Sayers, Mike J. Wallis, Jonathan D. Simm, Greg Baxter and Tony Andryszewski
Chapter 16 Handling Uncertainty in Coastal Modelling (pages 336–356): Dominic E. Reeve, Jose Horrillo?caraballo and Adrian Pedrozo?Acuna
Chapter 17 The Practice of Power: Governance and Flood Risk Management (pages 357–371): Colin Green
Chapter 18 Stakeholder Engagement in Flood Risk Management (pages 372–385): Colin Green and Edmund C. Penning?Rowsell
Chapter 19 Flood Risk Communication (pages 386–406): Hazel Faulkner, Simon McCarthy and Sylvia Tunstall
Chapter 20 Socio?Psychological Dimensions of Flood Risk Management (pages 407–428): Sue Tapsell
Chapter 21 Assessment of Infection Risks Due to Urban Flooding (pages 429–441): Lorna Fewtrell, Keren Smith and David Kay
Chapter 22 Modelling Concepts and Strategies to Support Integrated Flood Risk Management in Large, Lowland Basins: RiO Salado Basin, Argentina (pages 443–471): Rodo Aradas, Colin R. Thorne and Nigel Wright
Chapter 23 Flood Modelling in the Thames Estuary (pages 472–483): Jon Wicks, Luke Lovell and Owen Tarrant
Chapter 24 A Strategic View of Land Management Planning in Bangladesh (pages 484–498): Ainun Nishat, Bushra Nishat and Malik Fida Abdullah Khan
Chapter 25 Goals, Institutions and Governance: The US Experience (pages 499–511): Gerald E. Galloway