Floods, from Defence to Management
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Floods, from Defence to Management

Symposium Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Flood Defence, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 25-27 May 2005, Book + CD-ROM

  1. 418 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Floods, from Defence to Management

Symposium Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Flood Defence, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 25-27 May 2005, Book + CD-ROM

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Floods are natural events, but when they impact on human environments, they turn into disasters which disrupt society. The last decades have seen an alarming increase in the number of major floods and associated damage on every continent. The impact is more severe due to population growth and settlement in flood prone areas, climate change and disr

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Committees
  6. Opening speeches of the conference
  7. Introduction
  8. Characteristic data on floods and flooding
  9. General keynotes
  10. New flood risk management strategies (Netherlands Centre River Engineering)
  11. Theme report
  12. Conclusions
  13. Scientific developments
  14. Poster sessions
  15. Back Cover