Title Comprehensive flood risk management : research for policy and practice : proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Flood risk management, Floodrisk 2012, Rotterdam, the Nederlands, 19-23 november 2012 / editors, Frans Klijn, Timo Schweckendiek

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Keynote presentation -- Technical presentations -- Flood defences -- Inundation modelling -- Flood consequences -- Flood risk analysis -- Flood hazard and risk mapping -- Flood risk management -- Long term planning for global change -- Governance & policy instruments -- Vulnerability and resilience -- Risk communication -- Flood prediction and early warning -- Evacuation & rescue -- Flood event management Summary Flood risk management policy across the European Union is changing, partly in response to the EU Floods Directive and partly because of new scientific approaches and research findings. It involves a move towards comprehensive flood risk management, which requires bringing the following fields/domains closer together: the natural sciences, social sciences and arts; science, policy and practice; and engineering, spatial planning and governance. Naturally, this involves preventive fl ood risk management and flood event management, as well as learning from the past and considering future global ch Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 9, 2013) Bibliography Includes bibliographical reference and index Subject Flood control -- Europe Flood control -- Government policy -- Europe Risk management -- Europe NATURE -- Natural Disasters. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief. Flood control Flood control -- Government policy Risk management Inondations -- Maîtrise -- Europe -- Congrès. Inondations -- Prévision -- Europe -- Congrès. Europe Form Electronic book Author Klijn, Frans Schweckendiek, Timo Klijn, Frans, Éditeur scientifique Schweckendiek, Timo, Éditeur scientifique ISBN 9780203374511 0203374517

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