"Recent Advances in Flood Risk Management" ed. by John Abbot, Andrew Hammond

This book provides a series of topics on flood risk management from around the world.

The first section includes models for improved approaches to flood risk management, the importance of groundwater management in the context of floods (focussing on Taiwan), contingency plan for local communities using flood simulation, deciding on response strategies against the identified flood risk before a flood occurs (illustrated for the Philippines) and models for estimating maximum flood heights (illustrated for Mozambique).
The second section examines flood risk management relating to the urban environment, with examples from a coastal city in Saudi Arabia and a housing development in Mexico. The third section relates to flood risk management in the context of agriculture, particularly relating to damage to Asian rice crops.


Contents
1. New Frontiers in Flood Risk Management
2. Flood Damage Reduction in Land Subsidence Areas by Groundwater Management
3. Evidence-Based Contingency Planning to Enhance Local Resilience to Flood Disasters
4. Fitting a Generalised Extreme Value Distribution to Four Candidate Annual Maximum Flood Heights Time Series Models in the Lower Limpopo River Basin of Mozambique
5. Flood Risk and Vulnerability of Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia
6. Flood Risk Assessment in Housing under an Urban Development Scheme Simulating Water Flow in Plains
7. Methodology for Agricultural Flood Damage Assessment