Floods are difficult to prevent but can be managed in order to reduce their environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts. Flooding poses a serious threat to life and property, and therefore it’s very important that flood risks be taken into account during any planning process. This handbook presents different aspects of flooding in the context of a changing climate and across various geographical locations. Written by experts from around the world, it examines flooding in various climates and landscapes, taking into account environmental, ecological, hydrological, and geomorphic factors, and considers urban, agriculture, rangeland, forest, coastal, and desert areas.
Features
- Presents the main principles and applications of the science of floods, including engineering and technology, natural science, as well as sociological implications.
- Examines flooding in various climates and diverse landscapes, taking into account environmental, ecological, hydrological, and geomorphic factors.
- Considers floods in urban, agriculture, rangeland, forest, coastal, and desert areas
- Covers flood control structures as well as preparedness and response methods.
- Written in a global context, by contributors from around the world.
Volume I: Flood Principles and Applications (27)
Part I: An Introduction to Flooding
- Flash Flood Definition: Characteristics, Sources and Analysis-David Archer
- Geomorphoogy and Flooding-Giovanni Barrocu
- Mediterranean Flooding- Samir Algamal
- Arid Zone Flooding-Hassan Rezaei Sadr
- Hydroelectric and Floods-R. K. Saket
- Social Aspects of Flooding-Bintul Huda Mir
- Stakeholder Collaboration in Flood Risk Management-Karen Potter
- Impacts of flooding on Nigeria Educational Sector and Innovative Solutions-Benjamin Anabaraonye
- International Law and Policies on Floods-Sergio Peña Neira
- Guidelines for Unit Hydrograph Analyses-Richard McCuen
- History of World Extreme Floods-Mousa Maleki
- Isotope Techniques in Flood Analysis- Samir Algamal
- Paleoflood and Historical Flood Hydrology-Victor R. Baker
- Bankfull Stage and Flood Return Periods- Iftekhar Ahmed
- Dominant Discharge of Rivers- Iftekhar Ahmed
- Flood Mark Applications-Niranjan Bhattacharjee
- Regional Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves in Algeria-Bénina Touaibia
- Dynamic Curve Numbers: Concept and Application-Sara Nazif
- Application of SCS-CN for Estimating Runoff on Arid Watershed-Dilip Kumar Ghose
- Flood Hydrograph and Base Flow Separation using the Web Based Hydrograph Analysis Tool -Never Mujere
- Closed Drainage Systems-Qin Qian
- Flood Water Harvesting- Nasir Rather
- Flood Spreading-Reza Ghazavi
- Biotechnology and Flood-Resistant Rice-Saima Aslam
- A Novel Groundwater Recharge using Storm water Drainage-Jayantial Patel
- Sampling and Analytical Techniques for Flood Water Quality Monitoring-Josephine Treacy
- Watershed Contamination by a Copper Mine with Flooding-Emery Coppola Jr.
Part II: Social Aspects and Guidelines
Parst III: Past Floods
Part IV: Food Measurement and Estimation
Part V: Flood Control and Uses
Part VI: Flooding and Quality Aspects
Volume II: Flood Analysis and Modeling (27)
Part I: An Introduction to Flooding and Human
- Floods and People-Colin Green
- Importance of Hydrological and Meteorological Measurements and Observation
- Flood Observation Uncertainty-Jean-François Vuillaume
- Flood Modeling and Forecasting Uncertainty-Jean-François Vuillaume
- Empirical Modelling in Design Flood Estimation-Akshay Rajan Thorvat
- Flood Forecasting Time Series or Flood Frequency Analysis-Priyanka Sharma
- Stable Channel Design of Tapi River Using Hec-Ras For Surat Region-Darshan J. Mehta
- Hydro-Morpho Dynamics of River Junctions Characteristics and Advanced Modeling-Hydar Lafta Ali
- Shallow Water Flow Modelling-Franziska Tügel
- Modelling Approach in Forecasting Changes Caused By In-Stream River Restoration Structures-Tomasz Kaluzal
- Impact of Climate Change on Flooding-Conrad Wasko
- Sea Level Rise Due to Climate Change- Brij Bhushan
- Real-time Operation of Reservoirs during Flood Conditions using Optimization/Simulation-Larry Mays
- Application of Physically-Based Distributed Flood Models Towards Large-Scale Flood Simulations-S. Saksena
- Continuous Large-scale Simulation Models in Flood Studies-Rouzbeh Nazari
- Riverine and Flood Modeling Softwares-Mustafa Goodarzi
- Flood Modelling Using Open Source Software-Thomas J Scanlon
- Iterative Floodway Modelling Using HEC-RAS and GIS- Majid Galoie
- Flood Plain Mapping using HRC-RAS and ArcGIS-Mehdi Vafakhah
- Geospatial Techniques, Flood Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Mapping in GIS GAP-Ali Akbar Jamali
- Determining the High Flood Risk Regions Using a Rainfall-Runoff Modeling- Iftekhar Ahmed
- Geostatistics and Flooding-Homogeneous Regions Delineation for Multivariate Regional FA-E. Gargouri
- Application of L moments Based Index Flood Approach: A Case Study for NSW, Ayesha Rahman
- NASA Near-Real-Time Global Precipitation Products for Flood Modeling, Assessment, and Research- Zhong Liu
- Real time Flood Hydrograph Predictions using Soft Computing and Rating Curve Methods- Gokmen Tayfur
- Application of Integral Transforms in Hydrology-Vahid Nourani
- Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis For Flood Risk Assessment-Daniel Jato-Espino
Part II: Food Observation and Modeling Uncertainty
Part III: Flood Modeling and Forecasting
Part IV: Flood, River Restoration and Climate Change
Part V: Flood Optimization and Simulation
Part VI: Flood Softwares
Part VII: Flood Regionalization
Part VIII: Flood Softcomputing
Volume III: Flood Impact and Management (27)
Part I: Flood and Sustainability
- Sustainability in Flood Management-Fernando Alcoforado
- Hydrological Resilience of Large Lakes Management-Mike Ahmadi
- Best Management Practices as an Alternative for Food Control
- Flood Management: Status, Causes and Impact of Land Use on Flood in Brahmaputra
- Impact of Urbanization on Flooding
- Impact of Infiltration on Volume and Peak of Flood-Saeid Eslamian
- Impact of Bed Form on River Flow Resistance-Saeid Okhravi
- Catchment Morphometric Characteristics Impact on Floods Management: Role of Geospatial Technology
- Floods: From Risk to Opportunity-Iftekhar Ahmed
- Flood Risk Management in Romania- Daniel Diaconu
- Importance of Risk Mapping in the Processes of Spatial Planning in Spain-Jorge Olcina Cantos
- Reducing Flood Risk in Spain: The Role of Spatial planning, Alvaro-Francisco Morote Seguido
- Integrated Coastal Flood Risk Analysis-Andreas Burzel[email protected]Dilani Dassanayake
- River Rehabilitation For Flood Protection-Tomasz Walczykiewicz
- Torrential and Flash Flood Warning: General Overview and Uses of Localized Hydropower-Spyros Schismenos
- Flood and Building Damages-Mousa Maleki
- Flood Mapping, Monitoring and Damage Assessment using Geospatial Technology-Vaibhav Garg
- Fundamental Issues of Flood Hazard In the Alluvial Fan Environment-Jonathan Fuller
- Physical Vulnerability, Flood Damage, and Adjustments Examining the Factors affecting damage to Residential Buildings in Eastern
- River Flood Erosion and Land Development and Management-Giovanni Barrocu
- Debris and Solid Waste in Flood Plain Management-Sama Al-Jubouri
- A Sedimentary Investigation into Origin and Composition of a Dam Reservoir-Hallouz Faiza
- Sedimentation and Geomorphological Changes during Floods: Selected Problems-Leszek Starkel
- Dam Failure Assessment for Sustainable Flood Retention Basins-MIklas Scholz
- Simulating Flood due to Dam Break-Zafer Bozkuş
- Modelling the Propagation of the Submersion wave in Case of a Dam Break-Bouhellala Kharfia
- River Restoration as Flood Impact Mitigation-Osvaldo Rezende
Part II: Flood Impact Analysis
Part III: Flood Risk Management
Part IV: Flood Hazard and Damages
Dhaka-Md Nawrose Fatemi
Part V: Flood Erosion and Sediment
Part VI: Flooding and Dam Construction
Biography
Dr. Saeid Eslamian is professor of Hydrology at Isfahan University of Technology, where he heads the Hydrology Research Group in the Department of Water Engineering. His research focuses mainly on statistical and environmental hydrology and climate change. In particular, he is working on modeling and prediction of natural hazards including flood, drought, storms, wind, groundwater drawdown, and pollution for arid and semi-arid zones, particularly in urban areas. He is also a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and University of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He has contributed to more than 300 publications in books, research journals, and technical reports or papers in conferences. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of both the International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology and the Journal of Flood Engineering. He received ASCE and EWRI awards in 2009 and 2010 for his research. Faezeh A. Eslamian is a PhD candidate of bioresource engineering and research assistant at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is currently working on the fate and transport of phosphorus through subsurface drained farmlands. Dr. Eslamian completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, where she evaluated natural and low-cost absorbents for the removal of pollutants such as textile dyes and heavy metals. Furthermore, she has conducted research on the worldwide water quality standards, wastewater reuse, and drought guidelines.
