Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, 2e, 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. It is a valuable reference to researchers, graduates, scientists, physical geographers, urban planners, landscape architects, and other people who work on the build environments of the world.
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Table of Contents
Section I Floods
1. Flood Processes and Hazards
2. Palaeoflood Hydrology: Reconstructing Rare Events and Extreme Flood Discharges
3. Global and Low-Cost Topographic Data to Support Flood Studies
4. Vulnerability and Exposure in Developed and Developing Countries: Large-Scale Assessments
5. Integrated Risk Assessment of Water-Related Disasters
6. KULTURisk Methodology Application: Ubaye Valley (Barcelonnette, France)
7. Floods and Storms Practical Exercises
8. Rapid Onset Shocks: the importance of understanding impacts of flood disasters
Section II Droughts
9. Drought Monitoring and Assessment: Remote Sensing and Modeling Approaches for the Famine Early Warning Systems Network
10. Hydrological Modeling for Drought Assessment
11. Drought and water shortages in Mbale, Uganda
12. Web-based disaster risk management system
13. Integrating social science methods into drought risk studies
