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Coping with Floods (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
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Coping with Floods (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
Series: NATO Science Series E:, 257
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Floods are natural hazards whose effects can deeply affect the
economic and environmental equilibria of a region. Quality of life
of people living in areas close to rivers depends on both the risk
that a flood would occur and the reliability of flood forecast,
warning and control systems. Tools for forecasting and mitigating
floods have been developed through research in the recent past. Two
innovations currently influence flood hazard mitigation, after many
decades of lack of significant progress: they are the development
of new technologies for real-time flood forecast and warning (based
on weather radars and satellites) and a shift from structural to
non-structural flood control measures, due to increased awareness
of the importance of protecting the environment and the adverse
impacts of hydraulic works on it. This book is a review of research
progress booked in the improvements of forecast capability and the
control of floods. Mostly the book presents the results of recent
research in hydrology, modern techniques of real-time forecast and
warning, and ways of controlling floods for smaller impacts on the
environment. A number of case studies of floods in different
geographical areas are also presented. Scientists and specialists
working in fields of hydrology, environmental protection and
hydraulic engineering will appreciate this book for its theoretical
and practical content.
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