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Applying the Flood Vulnerability Index as a Knowledge Base for Flood Risk Assessment - UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis (Paperback, New)
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Applying the Flood Vulnerability Index as a Knowledge Base for Flood Risk Assessment - UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis (Paperback, New)
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Floods are one of the most common and widely distributed natural
risks to life and property worldwide. There is a need to identify
the risk of flooding in flood prone areas to support decisions for
flood management from high level planning proposals to detailed
design. An important part of modern flood risk management is to
assess vulnerability to floods. This assessment can be done only by
using a parametric approach. Worldwide there is a need to enhance
our understanding of vulnerability and to also develop
methodologies and tools to assess vulnerability. One of the most
important goals of assessing flood vulnerability is to create a
readily understandable link between the theoretical concepts of
flood vulnerability and the day-to-day decision-making process and
to encapsulate this link in an easily accessible tool. The present
book portrays a holistic parametric approach to be used in flood
vulnerability assessment and this way to facilitate the
consideration of system impacts in water resources decision-making.
The approach was verified in practical applications on different
spatial scales and comparison with deterministic approaches. The
use of flood vulnerability approach can produce helpful
understanding into vulnerability and capacities for using it in
planning and implementing projects.
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