Decision support methods for assessing flood risk and vulnerability / Ahmed Karmaoui, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karmaoui, Ahmed, 1982- author.

Contributor:

Karmaoui, Ahmed, 1982- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flood damage--Risk assessment.

Flood damage.

Floods--Economic aspects.

Floods.

Climatic changes.

Decision support systems.

Physical Description:

24 PDFs (332 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hershey, Pennsylvania : IGI Global, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This book examines the impact of floods on social, economic, ecologic, and physical infrastructures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Section 1. Flood vulnerability, risk, exposure, susceptibility, and resilience. Chapter 1. Flood vulnerability, risk, and susceptibility assessment: flood risk management ; Chapter 2. Composite indicators as decision support method for flood analysis: flood vulnerability index category ; Chapter 3. Impacts of climate change on coastal communities

Section 2. Floods and associated hydrologic events. Chapter 4. General review of calibration process of nonlinear muskingum model and its optimization by up-to-date methods ; Chapter 5. Flood frequency analysis using bayesian paradigm: a case study from Pakistan ; Chapter 6. Flood modelling and mapping: case study on Adyar River Basin, Chennai, India ; Chapter 7. Quantification and evaluation of water erosion: application of the model SDR invest in the Ziz Basin in South-East Morocco ; Chapter 8. Hydrologic modeling using SWAT: test the capacity of SWAT model to simulate the hydrological behavior of watershed in semi-arid climate ; Chapter 9. Hydraulic modeling of oued el jawaher using HEC-RAS model for flood protection

Section 3. Climate change, natural hazards, and anthropogenic impacts. Chapter 10. Flood hazard casting and predictions of climate change impressions ; Chapter 11. Climate change-induced flood disaster policy communication issues for local community adaptation resilience management in Uganda: climate information services for effective national flood risk assessment decision communication ; Chapter 12. Environmental hazards assessment at pre-saharan local scale: case study from the Draa Valley, Morocco ; Chapter 13. Vulnerability of forest vegetation due to anthropogenic disturbances in Western Himalayan Region of India.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781522597735

OCLC:

1111720757