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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829177803321

Autore

Simonović Slobodan P.

Titolo

Floods in a changing climate Risk management / / Slobodan P. Simonović, University of Western Ontario [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-85398-8

1-107-23542-1

1-139-84490-3

1-139-84016-9

1-139-08840-8

1-139-84254-4

1-139-84585-3

1-283-74661-1

1-139-84135-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 179 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

International hydrology series

Classificazione

SCI081000

Disciplina

363.34/932

Soggetti

Flood control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Flood risk management -- Climate change and risk of flooding -- Risk management as adaptation to climate change -- Risk management : probabilistic approach -- Risk management : fuzzy set approach -- Future perspectives.

Sommario/riassunto

Flood risk management is presented in this book as a framework for identifying, assessing and prioritizing climate-related risks and developing appropriate adaptation responses. Rigorous assessment is employed to determine the available probabilistic and fuzzy set-based analytic tools, when each is appropriate and how to apply them to practical problems. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, environmental science and policy and risk assessment, and professionals and policy-makers working in hazard mitigation, water resources engineering and environmental economics, will find this an invaluable resource. This volume is the fourth in a collection of



four books on flood disaster management theory and practice within the context of anthropogenic climate change. The others are: Floods in a Changing Climate: Extreme Precipitation by Ramesh Teegavarapu, Floods in a Changing Climate: Hydrological Modelling by P. P. Mujumdar and D. Nagesh Kumar and Floods in a Changing Climate: Inundation Modelling by Giuliano Di Baldassarre.