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Author:   Zoran Vojinovic ,  Michael B. Abbott ,  Bambos Charalambous
Publisher:   IWA Publishing
Imprint:   IWA Publishing
Volume:   v. 2
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.270kg
ISBN:  

9781843393870

ISBN 10:   1843393875
Pages:   581
Publication Date:   05 March 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of contents: Foreword by Prof J. Philip O’Kane; Foreword by Prof Jean A. Cunge Introduction; The Nature of Urban Flood Risk; Urban areas and flooding, Tracing the roots of urban flood risk, The nature of risk, Adding Social and Ethical Aspects into Flood Risk Mitigation; The technocratic way of thinking, Historical perspectives of social justice, Characterisations of social justice, Realising social justice in the context of flood risk mitigation, Leadership and social justice, On sociotechnology, Data—Information—Knowledge—Understanding—Wisdom, The role of hydroinformatics in active stakeholder participation, Scientific and Technical Aspects of Flooding; Floods and drainage systems, Quantifying urban processes, Data collection for modelling, Rainfall data analysis and catchment delineation, Modelling wet weather and dry weather flows, Hydraulic modelling, Numerical solutions of equations, Modelling practice, Practical Aspects of Flood Risk Assessment and Mitigation; Flood risk assessment, Flood mitigation measures, Production of plans

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""The book fills this gap in the current literature by broadening the focus of traditional flood management practice. It offers, in one place, an overview on issues that range from the social and ethical, to the scientific and practical. I commend this most interesting book to people of good will who are concerned with the risk of flooding, and with the education of new model engineers, and say to them: Read on!"" J. PHILIP O'KANE, Emeritus Professor, University College Cork, Ireland

The book fills this gap in the current literature by broadening the focus of traditional flood management practice. It offers, in one place, an overview on issues that range from the social and ethical, to the scientific and practical. I commend this most interesting book to people of good will who are concerned with the risk of flooding, and with the education of new model engineers, and say to them: Read on! J. PHILIP O'KANE, Emeritus Professor, University College Cork, Ireland

"""The book fills this gap in the current literature by broadening the focus of traditional flood management practice. It offers, in one place, an overview on issues that range from the social and ethical, to the scientific and practical. I commend this most interesting book to people of good will who are concerned with the risk of flooding, and with the education of new model engineers, and say to them: Read on!"" J. PHILIP O'KANE, Emeritus Professor, University College Cork, Ireland"

Author Information

Zoran Vojinovic is Associate Professor at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands, with almost 20 years of consulting and research experience in various aspects of water industry in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Europe, Central/South America and the Caribbean. Michael B. Abbott is Emeritus Professor at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands, and a Director of the European Institute for Industrial Leadership in Brussels. He founded and developed the disciplines of Computational Hydraulics and Hydroinformatics and co-founded, the Journal of Hydroinformatics with Professor Roger Falconer.

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