
Flood Risk Change
A Complexity Perspective
- 1st Edition - August 30, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Andreas Paul Zischg
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 0 1 1 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 0 1 0 - 7
Flood Risk Change: A Complexity Perspective focuses on the dynamic nature of flood risks and follows a systemic approach - including environmental, socioeconomic and socio-tec… Read more

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Request a sales quoteFlood Risk Change: A Complexity Perspective focuses on the dynamic nature of flood risks and follows a systemic approach - including environmental, socioeconomic and socio-technical factors for modeling and managing flood risk change. Readers will gain a more complete picture of the topic for understanding the complexity of flood risk change, both from human and natural causes of flooding. The book includes a mix of theory (introduction to complex system science from the flood risk management perspective) and case studies. It features maps and figures focusing on the system components as well as on the dynamic interactions between the drivers of change.
Researchers studying flood risk, environmental engineering, disaster risk reduction, and land use, as well as those in industry and responsible for policy, will find this an invaluable resource.
- Comprehensive overview of key drivers of change, including both natural drivers and socioeconomic drivers
- Presents different modeling frameworks and setups for considering complexity in flood risk analysis and management
- Includes both theoretical research and practical applications as told through case studies
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Key drivers of flood risk change
- Principles of flood risk analysis
- Environmental changes
- Environmental changes in the upstream catchment
- Environmental changes in the floodplain
- Climate changes
- Socioeconomic changes
- Coevolution of key drivers of change
- Chapter 3. Disentangling drivers of change
- Analysis and modeling framework
- Analyzing the effects of feedback and time lags on flood risk change
- Chapter 4. Rivers and floodplains as complex adaptive systems?
- Characteristics of complex systems
- Long-term evolution of floodplains seen from a complex systems perspective
- Complexity of flood risk change
- Trajectories and pathways of flood risk evolution
- Sensitivity to climatic changes—short-term future pathways
- Chapter 5. Modeling spatiotemporal dynamics of flood risk change
- Examples of flood risk change analysis
- Modeling framework for considering complexity in the analysis of flood risk change
- Development of coupled component models
- Perspectives of coupled component models in hydrology
- Chapter 6. Confronting complexity in flood risk management
- A new perspective on flood risks
- Levers for controlling flood risk in the long term
- Implications for flood risk research and management
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 30, 2022
- No. of pages (Paperback): 314
- No. of pages (eBook): 314
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128220115
- eBook ISBN: 9780128230107
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