Deals with themes like flood risk simulation, warning, assessment and mitigation. This book presents an overview of meteorology, climatology and forecasting of floods. It also reflects on flash floods, flood-meadows, drowned lands, flood bypass, floodplain, rain cloudburst and storm surge.
Presents an overview of an integrated approach towards flood control, mitigation and management with focus on attempts towards understanding floods and related development processes. This book also reflects an analysis of types of floods and their impacts, and knowledge of traditional flood management issues and options.
Alluvial fans are ubiquitous geomorphological features that occur throughout the world, regardless of climate, at the front of mountains as the result of erosion and deposition. Thsi title summarizes the current state, from the viewpoint of engineering, in the identification and mitigation of flood hazard on alluvial fans.
Responsibility for flood risk management in the US is a shared responsibility between multiple Federal, State, and local government agencies with a complex set of programs and authorities. Nationally, both the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have programs to assist communities in reducing flood damages.