Inland Flood Hazards

Human, Riparian, and Aquatic Communities
Herausgeber: Wohl, Ellen E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume was originally published in 2000 and presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of issues related to inland flood hazards. It addresses physical controls on flooding, flood processes and effects, and responses to flooding, from the perspective of human, aquatic, and riparian communities. Individual chapter authors are recognized experts in their fields who draw on examples and case studies of inland flood hazards from around the world. This volume is unusual among treatments of flood hazards in that it addresses how the non-occurrence of floods, in association with flow regulation and other human manipulation of river systems, may create hazards for aquatic and riparian communities. This book will be a valuable resource for everyone associated with inland flood hazards: professionals in government and industry, and researchers and graduate students in civil engineering, geography, geology, hydrology, hydraulics, and ecology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1099g
• ISBN-13: 9780521189668
• ISBN-10: 0521189667
• Artikelnr.: 32733230

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Inland flood hazards Ellen E. Wohl; Part II.
Physical Controls on Flooding: 2. Hydroclimatology of meteorologic floods
K. K. Hirschboeck et al.; 3. Floods from natural and artificial dam
failures Daniel A. Cenderelli; 4. Anthropogenic impacts on flood hazards
Ellen E. Wohl; Part III. Flood Processes and Effects: 5. Inundation
hydrology Leal A. K. Mertes; 6. Geomorphic effects of floods Ellen E. Wohl;
7. Contaminant transport hazards during flooding Jim B. Finley; 8. Floods,
flood control, and bottomland vegetation Jonathan M. Friedman and Gregor T.
Auble; 9. Flooding and aquatic ecosystems Richard S. Wydoski and Edmund J.
Wick; 10. The effects of variable river flow on human communities Dorothy
Merritts; Part IV. Responses to Flooding: 11. Prediction and modeling of
flood hydrology and hydraulics Jorge A. Ramírez; 12. Flood frequency
analysis and statistical estimation of flood risk Jery R. Stedinger; 13.
Paleoflood hydrology and the estimation of extreme floods Victor R. Baker;
14. Comparison of flood management strategies Chester C. Watson and Davis
S. Biedenharn; 15. Nonstructural mitigation of flood hazards Eve Gruntfest;
16. Planning for flow requirements to sustain stream biota Clair B.
Stalnaker and Edmund J. Wick; 17. Cultural perceptions of flooding Melinda
Laituri; 18. Urban planning for flood hazards, risk, and vulnerability
Douglas Hamilton and Alejandro Joaquin; Part V. Conclusions: 19. Floods in
the twenty-first century Ellen E. Wohl.