Flood risk management [electronic resource] : research and practice : proceedings of the European Conference on Flood Risk Management Research into Practice (FLOODRISK 2008), Oxford, UK, 30 September-2 October 2008 / editors, Paul Samuels ... [et al.]

Author	European Conference on Flood Risk Management Research into Practice (2008 : Oxford, England)
Title	Flood risk management [electronic resource] : research and practice : proceedings of the European Conference on Flood Risk Management Research into Practice (FLOODRISK 2008), Oxford, UK, 30 September-2 October 2008 / editors, Paul Samuels ... [et al.]
Imprint	Boca Raton, FL. : CRC Press, 2009
Connect to	http://marc.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9780203883020
Descript	xxi, 309 p. : ill., maps

CONTENT

Keynote presentation: Coastal flooding : a view from a practical Dutchman on present and future strategies / J.W. van der Meer -- Technical presentations: Inundation modelling -- System analysis -- International programmes -- Infrastructure and assets -- Non-structural approaches (CRUE project) -- Long term planning, integrated portfolios & spatial planning -- Vulnerability and resilience, human and social impacts -- Assessment of extremes -- Civil contingency, emergency planning, flood event management -- Flood forecasting and warning -- Environmental impacts, morphology & sediments -- Risk sharing, equity and social justice -- Uncertainty -- Flash floods -- Risk and economic assessments -- Climate change

SUBJECT

Flood control -- Congresses
Flood forecasting -- Congresses
Electronic books.