Floods in a Changing Climate
Risk Management

Provides a flood risk-management framework for identifying and assessing climate-related risks and developing adaptation responses, for academic researchers and professionals.

Slobodan P. Simonovi? (Author)

9781108447058, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 March 2018

194 pages, 93 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 50 tables 48 exercises
28 x 21.5 x 1.3 cm, 0.54 kg

Flood risk management is presented in this book as a framework for identifying, assessing and prioritizing climate-related risks and developing appropriate adaptation responses. Rigorous assessment is employed to determine the available probabilistic and fuzzy set-based analytic tools, when each is appropriate and how to apply them to practical problems. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, environmental science and policy and risk assessment, and professionals and policy-makers working in hazard mitigation, water resources engineering and environmental economics, will find this an invaluable resource. This volume is the fourth in a collection of four books on flood disaster management theory and practice within the context of anthropogenic climate change. The others are: Floods in a Changing Climate: Extreme Precipitation by Ramesh Teegavarapu, Floods in a Changing Climate: Hydrologic Modeling by P. P. Mujumdar and D. Nagesh Kumar and Floods in a Changing Climate: Inundation Modelling by Giuliano Di Baldassarre.

Forewords
Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary
List of acronyms
Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Flood risk management
2. Climate change and risk of flooding
3. Risk management as adaptation to climate change
Part II. Flood Risk Management - Probabilistic Approach: 4. Risk management - probabilistic approach
Part III. Flood Risk Management - Fuzzy Set Approach: 5. Risk management - fuzzy set approach
Part IV. Future Perspectives: 6. Future perspectives
References
Index.

Subject Areas: The environment [RN], Meteorology & climatology [RBP], Hydrology & the hydrosphere [RBK], Earth sciences [RB]