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Floods, from Defence to Management: Symposium Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Flood Defence, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 25-27 May 2005, Book + CD-ROM book cover

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Floods, from Defence to Management Symposium Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Flood Defence, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 25-27 May 2005, Book + CD-ROM

Edited By Jos van Alphen, Eelco van Beek, Marco Taal Copyright 2006
418 Pages
by CRC Press

418 Pages
by CRC Press
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Floods are natural events, but when they impact on human environments, they turn into disasters which disrupt society. The last decades have seen an alarming increase in the number of major floods and associated damage on every continent. The impact is more severe due to population growth and settlement in flood prone areas, climate change and disrupted hydrological cycles. There is now an... Read more

Preface; Introduction- From flood defence to flood management – Prerequisites for sustainable flood management; Characteristic data on floods and flooding: Characteristic data on river floods and flooding; facts and figures; General keynotes: State of the art in policy development and implementation – From flood management to Integrated Flood Management; Flood management research needs; Recent Chinese progress in flood management; Special sessions: New flood risk management strategies (Netherlands Centre River Engineering) European Union Sessions; Theme overviews: Theme report; Keynotes; Frameworks; Keynote; Policy and implementation; Measures and solutions; Conclusions and declaration; Abstracts: Scientific developments; Frameworks; Policy and implementation; Measures and solutions; Poster Sessions.

Biography

Jos van Alphen, Eelco van Beek, Marco Taal

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