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OverviewDeveloping an improved understanding of emerging flood risk management and urban water management was the goal set for research presented at the 6th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management, held in A Coruna, Spain. The published papers look to solve various challenges in this field by drawing on the expertise of numerous disciplines and considering a range of responses. Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims numerous lives worldwide each year. When flooding occurs in urban areas, it can cause substantial damage to property as well as threatening human life. In addition, many more people must endure the homelessness, upset and disruption that are left in the wake of floods. The increased frequency of flooding in the last few years, coupled with climate change predictions and urban development, suggest that these impacts are set to worsen in the future. How we respond and importantly, adapt to these challenges is key to developing our long term resilience at the property, community and city scale. Apart from the physical damage to buildings, contents and loss of life, which are the most obvious, impacts of floods upon households, other more indirect losses are often overlooked. These indirect and intangible impacts are generally associated with disruption to normal life as well as longer term health issues including community displacements and stress related illnesses. Flooding represents a major barrier to the alleviation of poverty in many parts of the developing world, where vulnerable communities are often exposed to sudden and life threatening events. As our cities continue to expand, their urban infrastructures need to be re-evaluated and adapted to new requirements related to the increase in population and the growing areas under urbanization. The papers contained in this book consider these problems and deals with two main urban water topics: water supply systems and urban drainage. Full Product DetailsAuthor: S. Hernandez , S. Mambretti , David Proverbs , J. PuertasPublisher: WIT Press Imprint: WIT Press Volume: 184 ISBN: 9781784662639ISBN 10: 1784662631 Pages: 220 Publication Date: 21 August 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Considering the value of community engagement for (co-)producing blue-green infrastructure; Proposition of fractal dimension application for the estimation of certainty of water delivery; Towards complete property-level flood protection of domestic buildings in the UK; Simulation of chlorine concentration changes in a real water supply network using EPANET 2.0 and WaterGEMs software packages; Impact analysis of the precision of mapping operational conditions of the water supply system on the accuracy of hydraulic model calibration; Flood damage assessment; Problems of rainwater management: a case study of the city of Warsaw, Poland; Evaluating the impacts of flooding on the residents of Lagos, Nigeria; Planning opportunities for climate resilience in Brisbane, Australia: learning from the city's history of floods; Rainfall enhancement through cloud seeding: a case study; Evaluating the suitability of Airbus WorldDEM for flood modelling in data-scarce regions: the case study of the Megaruma river, Mozambique; Scent integrated toolbox for monitoring flood phenomena; Morphodynamic analysis of the Tuccio River, South Calabria, Italy; An investigation of small and medium-sized enterprises' flood preparation and insurance coverage using agent-based modelling; Discussing the proprieties of the conventional assessment of flood control investment focused on the undeveloped area; Social media analysis of people's high-risk responses to flood occurrence; Study on debris flow forecasting using a rainfall triggering index; Estimation of flood damage using building group inventory and multidimensional flood damage analysis Author indexReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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