Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
Published on 11. November 2014
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-12-394846-5 (ISBN)
Description
Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major atmospheric disasters that have had and continue to have major implications for many of the world's people, such as floods and droughts. . This volume takes a geoscientific approach to the topic, while also covering current thinking about some directly relevant social scientific issues that can affect lives and property. Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters also contains new insights about how climate change affects hazardous processes. For the first time, information on the many diverse topics relevant to professionals is aggregated into one volume.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Ocean scientists, atmospheric scientists, geologists
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-394846-5 (9780123948465)
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Person
Paolo is a Senior Lecturer at IHE Delft in the River Basin Development research group. He has more than 15 years of combined professional experience in the Humanitarian, Professional and Academic world in the areas of mapping, geology and geomorphology and remote sensing. In the last years he has been developing methods and tools for the use of UAV in hydraulic research including flood mapping as well as in ecology and soil erosion. He has worked and lived extensively in Eastern and Southern Africa with shorter assignments in Asia and East Asia, and at present he is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Content
SECTION I: FLOODS AND STORMS1. Flood processes2. Measuring and mapping flood processes3. Palaeoflood hydrology: Reconstructing rare events and extreme flood discharges4. Global and low-cost topographic data to support flood studies5. Water related vulnerability, exposure, economic losses6. Integrated risk assessment of water related processes7. The benefits of risk prevention: Application of the KULTURisk methodology (Barcelonnette, Ubaye Valley, France)8. Training material on flood modelling and risk assessment
SECTION II: WIND, HEAT WAVES, AND DROUGHTS9. Wind vulnerability & exposure assessment10. Wind risk analysis of wind related processes11. Drought processes: Data and analysis12. Hydrological modelling for drought assessment
SECTION II: WIND, HEAT WAVES, AND DROUGHTS9. Wind vulnerability & exposure assessment10. Wind risk analysis of wind related processes11. Drought processes: Data and analysis12. Hydrological modelling for drought assessment