Inland Flood Hazards
Human, Riparian, and Aquatic Communities

This 2000 volume presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of issues related to inland flood hazards.

Ellen E. Wohl (Edited by)

9780521189668, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 2 June 2011

518 pages
25.4 x 20.3 x 2.6 cm, 1.02 kg

Review of the hardback: '… a well-constructed book with a non-traditional inclusion of flood processes and implications. There is much to like about this kind of approach, and just about any reader, no matter what their background or interest in floods, will find something of interest and importance in here.' Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

This edited volume was originally published in 2000 and presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of issues related to inland flood hazards. It addresses physical controls on flooding, flood processes and effects, and responses to flooding, from the perspective of human, aquatic, and riparian communities. Individual chapter authors are recognized experts in their fields who draw on examples and case studies of inland flood hazards from around the world. This volume is unusual among treatments of flood hazards in that it addresses how the non-occurrence of floods, in association with flow regulation and other human manipulation of river systems, may create hazards for aquatic and riparian communities. This book will be a valuable resource for everyone associated with inland flood hazards: professionals in government and industry, and researchers and graduate students in civil engineering, geography, geology, hydrology, hydraulics, and ecology.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Inland flood hazards Ellen E. Wohl
Part II. Physical Controls on Flooding: 2. Hydroclimatology of meteorologic floods K. K. Hirschboeck et al.
3. Floods from natural and artificial dam failures Daniel A. Cenderelli
4. Anthropogenic impacts on flood hazards Ellen E. Wohl
Part III. Flood Processes and Effects: 5. Inundation hydrology Leal A. K. Mertes
6. Geomorphic effects of floods Ellen E. Wohl
7. Contaminant transport hazards during flooding Jim B. Finley
8. Floods, flood control, and bottomland vegetation Jonathan M. Friedman and Gregor T. Auble
9. Flooding and aquatic ecosystems Richard S. Wydoski and Edmund J. Wick
10. The effects of variable river flow on human communities Dorothy Merritts
Part IV. Responses to Flooding: 11. Prediction and modeling of flood hydrology and hydraulics Jorge A. Ramírez
12. Flood frequency analysis and statistical estimation of flood risk Jery R. Stedinger
13. Paleoflood hydrology and the estimation of extreme floods Victor R. Baker
14. Comparison of flood management strategies Chester C. Watson and Davis S. Biedenharn
15. Nonstructural mitigation of flood hazards Eve Gruntfest
16. Planning for flow requirements to sustain stream biota Clair B. Stalnaker and Edmund J. Wick
17. Cultural perceptions of flooding Melinda Laituri
18. Urban planning for flood hazards, risk, and vulnerability Douglas Hamilton and Alejandro Joaquin
Part V. Conclusions: 19. Floods in the twenty-first century Ellen E. Wohl.

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Limnology [freshwater RBKF]