Flood Risk Assessments : Applications and Uncertainties

• Autore: Diez-Herrero Andres
• Pubblicazione: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Research & information: general
• Soggetto non controllato: 112 emergency service; AHP; Bhote Koshi; building first floor; calibrated thresholding; Castile and León; central Spain; circumstances of loss of life; climate change; climate change prioritization; climate model projections; cultural heritage; damages; database; debris flow; Ebro River; economic damage; eigenvector spatial filtering method; emergency management; fatalities; flood damage uncertainty; flood defences; flood forecasting; flood hazard; flood management; flood mapping; flood risk; flood risk analysis; flood risk areas; flood risk assessment; flood risk assessments; flood risk evaluation; flood torrential dynamics; flood vulnerability; floods; geographic information systems; geomorphological threshold; glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF); Gorkha earthquake; hazard assessment; historical analysis; hydrological response; lahar; land-use changes; landslides; levee breach; levee failures; local analysis; LOESS model; magnitude-damage models; meso-scale; Navaluenga; open public data sources; open source; paleostage indicators; pedestrians; Pico de Orizaba; pluvial floods; Poisson regression; PRICAM project; properties; Pyrenees; RADAR SAR; RAMMS program; Reinosa; RGB composition; risk map calibration; Sentinel-1; ski resort; snow cover control; Spain; spatial autocorrelation; Tagus Basin; tree-ring analysis; vehicles; vulnerability cartography; vulnerability indicators; vulnerability of networks
• Persona (resp. second.): GarroteJulio; Diez-HerreroAndres
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent years, a considerable volume of technical literature has been published on flood hazard analysis, and more recently, on flood vulnerability and resilience. Nevertheless, there is still a shortage of scientific studies and practical experience of real flood risk assessment (both social and economic), including hazard, exposure and vulnerability analyses and their integration. As there are so few references available, applications of flood risk assessment to the design of preventive measures and early warning systems, landscape and urban planning, civil protection, insurance systems, and risk-based information and education, cannot reach their full potential development. This is because the research products available, such as hazard data and maps, do not serve to ensure the efficient prioritization of mitigation measures or communities at risk. Meanwhile, flooding is the natural disaster that causes the greatest loss on a global scale, and due to climate change, this situation is expected to continue. The research manuscripts involved in this book try to offer flood risk managers new tools, data and maps to improve risk mitigation, both preventive and corrective. A wide variety of topics have been covered, including: flood risk data sources; techniques and methodologies for flood risk analysis; flood risk mapping; or flood risk analysis calibrations.
• Altri titoli varianti: Flood Risk Assessments
• Titolo autorizzato: Flood Risk Assessments
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910557105103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II