Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
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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...
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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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SECTION I: FLOODS AND STORMS 1. Flood processes 2. Measuring and mapping flood processes 3. Palaeoflood hydrology: Reconstructing rare events and extreme flood discharges 4. Global and low-cost topographic data to support flood studies 5. Water related vulnerability, exposure, economic losses 6. Integrated risk assessment of water related processes 7. The benefits of risk prevention: Application of the KULTURisk methodology (Barcelonnette, Ubaye Valley, France) 8. Training material on flood modelling and risk assessmentSECTION II: WIND, HEAT WAVES, AND DROUGHTS 9. Wind vulnerability & exposure assessment 10. Wind risk analysis of wind related processes 11. Drought processes: Data and analysis 12. Hydrological modelling for drought assessment
Autoren-Porträt von Paolo Paron
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paolo Paron
- 2014, XVI, 288 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 15,4 x 23,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Paolo Paron, Giuliano di Baldassarre
- Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology
- ISBN-10: 0123948460
- ISBN-13: 9780123948465
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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