Floods and Flood Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-lx

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2. Basin Management Planning and the Environment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Flood Management in Rockhampton, Australia

      • D. M. Sargent

      Pages 3-15

   3. Standards of Service for Flood Defence

      • C. J. Birks, M. L. Pickles, C. W. Bray, K. Taylor

      Pages 17-37

   4. Formulation of Basin Management Plans for the Northern New Territories, Hong Kong

      • N. R. Townsend, J. M. Bartlett

      Pages 39-48

   5. Catchment Management Planning in the National Rivers Authority of England and Wales

      • Grainger L. Davies

      Pages 49-68

   6. Washland Management in the Ouse Washes Conservation Area

      • Nigel Pask

      Pages 69-89

   7. Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) and Policy Analysis as Tools on for Combatting Flooding in the Netherlands

      • Gé Beaufort

      Pages 91-103

   8. Incorporating expert decision support systems with traditional decision approaches of managers for improved flood control

      • M. M. Brennan, J. P. O’Kane

      Pages 105-108

   9. FLOOD -Computer System and its Implementation

      • Jan Chojnacki, Janusz Filimowski, Roman Konieczny

      Pages 109-117

   10. Fluvial Flooding : Decision Making in Floodplain Management

       • I. S. Heijne

       Pages 119-128

3. Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modelling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Analysis and use of peaks-over-threshold data in flood estimation

      • Pamela S. Naden

      Pages 131-143

   3. Flood frequency of the world’s largest catchments

      • M. C. Acreman, F. A. K. Farquharson

      Pages 145-156

   4. Sensitivity of a Semidistributed Hydrologic Model to Rainfall Estimation Accuracy

      • M. Borga, M. Di Luzio

      Pages 157-168

   5. Multipurpose Mathematical Model for Flood Management Studies and Real Time Control

      • Terry van Kalken, Karsten Havnø

      Pages 169-185

   6. Management of the Aire and Calder Washlands -Performance Evaluation and Optimisation by Numerical Modelling

      • David Pelleymounter, Ronald H. Falconer

      Pages 187-209

   7. Mathematical Modelling of the River Beam

      • Y. Sun, G. Jensen, R. Pethick

      Pages 211-222

   8. Digital Ground Models in Hydro-Environmental Engineering

      • Graham Thompson, Ian G. Bush

      Pages 223-230

   9. Survey and Characteristics of the Submersion Wave due to the Sudden Opening of the Bottom Outlet of Alto Mora Dam (Italy)

      • G. Braschi, M. Gallati

      Pages 231-246

In recent years there have been a number of catastrophic floods that have resulted in a tragic loss of life. These natural disasters highlight the need to further understand the occurrence phenomena, to improve forecasting techniques, and to develop procedures and contingency plans to minimise the flood impact.
This volume contains contributions from the 3rd International Conference on Floods and Flood Management held in Florence in November 1992. The volume is timely and provides an important overview for engineers, scientists, managers and researchers of the latest developments in technology, analysis and management.

• computer
• control
• damage
• development
• floods
• flow
• iron
• management
• modeling
• modelling
• research
• risk
• smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH)
• technology
• waves
• hydrogeology

• University of Sheffield, UK

  A. J. Saul

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