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Floods - a continuing challenge
Major floods are the most chronic and costly natural hazards in many countries and continuing work in flood related sciences and implementation of hazard-reduction policies is essential to constrain the associated damage. Several publications available from IAHS report innovative flood research and integrated flood risk management. The following are available via our online Bookshop |
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Special Publ. 10 (2012) 978-1-907161-28-5 516 + xvi pp. |
Changes in Flood Risk in EuropeEditor Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
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IAHS Publ. 357 (2013) ISBN 978-1-907161-35-3, 470 + x pp. |
Floods: From Risk to OpportunityEditors A. Chavoshian & K. Takeuchi
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Weather Radar and Hydrology
Editors Robert J. Moore, Steven J. Cole & Anthony J. Illingworth
Weather Radar and Hydrology concerns the monitoring and forecasting of rainfall over space and time, and how the pattern of rainfall is transformed by a varied landscape into surface water runoff and river flow across a city, region or country, and so has significant practical application across water resource functions, including flood forecasting and warning, flood design, urban drainage manage¬ment, water supply and environmental services.
A valuable record of current activity with >100 peer-reviewed contributions from WRaH 2011, Exeter, UK.
IAHS Publ. 351 (2012) ISBN 978-1-907161-26-1, 672 + xvi pp.
Risk in Water Resources Management
Editors Günter Blöschl, Kuni Takeuchi, Sharad Jain, Andreas Farnleitner & Andreas Schumann
Water resources management has to deal with incomplete knowledge of the current dynamics and the future evolution of water resource systems. Risk is a concept that helps in making management decisions under incomplete and/or incorrect knowledge by relating water-related hazards and their consequences. Risks related to floods and droughts, to the environment and to health, as well as economic and financial risk are encompassed by water resources management. It is not possible to completely eliminate uncertainty, but better under-standing of the sources and magnitude of the uncertainties involved in a particular project will clearly lead to improved decisions: this volume aims towards that end.
IAHS Publ. 347 (2011) 978-1-907161-22-3 276 + x pp.
Frontiers in Flood Research
Editors Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia, Khin Ni Ni Thein & Pierre Hubert
International experts provide new information and insights to the key issues and developments in present flood research. Scientific understanding of the flood phenomenon and of its potential impacts from the perspective of the engineering, operational, economic, social and ecological aspects of flood research, and with a focus on integrated flood risk management, is proposed.
IAHS Publ. 305 (2006) ISBN 1-901502-63-5 212 + xii pp.
Hydrological Sciences Journal
In addition, the following article is now free to view in HSJ at Taylor & Francis
Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives by Z. W. Kundzewicz et al. (Dec. 2013)