Floods: Physical Processes and Human Impacts

Floods: Physical Processes and Human Impacts By Keith Smith, Roy Ward
Publisher: W.i.l.e.y 1998 | 394 Pages | ISBN: 0471952486 | CHM | 4 MB

 

This book is concerned with the causes and consequences of river and coastal floods and the ways in which people can respond to the flood hazard. Individual chapters address issues such as floods as natural hazards; impacts and interpretations of flood hazard; causes, spatial characteristics and form of river floods and coastal floods; flood estimation; flood defence; flood forecasting and warning; other responses including land use planning and insurance; and a concluding discussion of problems, policies and prospects. 

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