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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583325903321

Titolo

Floods . 1 Risk knowledge / / edited by Freddy Vinet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : ISTE Press Limited

Oxford : , : Elsevier Limited, , 2017

ISBN

0-08-102383-9

1-78548-268-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 335 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

627.4

Soggetti

Floods - Risk assessment

Flood control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The impacts of floods -- pt. 2. The knowledge of flood hazards -- pt. 3. Flooded people and lands: human drivers of flood impacts -- pt. 4. The future.

Sommario/riassunto

This book reviews available multidisciplinary knowledge on flood risk and includes both hydrological and hydraulic science and other disciplines such as economics and human and geographical sciences. This integrated approach contextualizes current conclusions on the eventual effects of climate change by showing that human factors are of paramount importance in understanding the process of risk production.