Martina Zelenáková, Lenka Ganová, Daniel Constantin Diaconu

Flood Damage Assessment and Management (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The costs of damages caused by extreme weather events, among which floods are a major category, are showing a rapid upward trend, both globally and in Europe. Scope and extremity of flood episodes point to the need to build a comprehensive proposal including the completion of flood protection measures in areas exposed to flood risk. The aim of flood risk management is to present flood protection measures. This book presents the state of the art of essential knowledge on methods and tools of flood risk assessment and management to young researchers, academics, lecturers and water management practitioners.

This book is dedicated to flood damage assessment focused on social, economic and environmental damages management. Its objectives are to develop a general methodology for flood risk assessment and to present a choice of effective flood protection methods according the objectives of flood risk management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030500535
• Artikelnr.: 59752399

Autorenporträt

Martina Zelenáková is associated professor in the field of environmental engineering at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of KoSice, Slovakia. In the framework of her scientific-research activities she has focused on solution of water management problems, rainwater management, environmental impacts assessment and separately on the assessment of environmental risks in river basins in relation to flood events, drought and water pollution. The results of her scientific-research work have been published in national and international journals, scientific conference proceedings, proceedings of national and international conferences. She is author, editor, co-author and co-editor of educational textbooks and monographs, she has cooperated in solving of national and international projects, as the principal investigator or partner.

Lenka Ganová graduated master degree and PhD degree in the field of environmental engineering at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of KoSice, Slovakia. Her scientific work as well as her thesis was devoted to flood risk assessment and flood risk management. She was participating in a project implementation regarding the flood protection and she published the results of her research in scientific proceedings of national and international conferences.

Daniel Constantin Diaconu works as assistant professor at the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology at University of Bucharest, Romania. He does research in hydrology focusing on flood protection, environmental sciences and integrated water resources management. He is an expert in bathymetry and limnology. The results of his scientific work have been published in journals and conference proceedings. He is participating in scientific projects mainly within Research Center for Integrated Analysis and Territorial Management (CAIMT)within the University of Bucharest.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2.Flood risk assessment.- 3. Flood damage assessment.- 4. Flood risk management.- 5. Case studies.- 6. Conclusion.