
Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
- 2nd Edition - August 17, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Paolo Paron
- Editors: Paolo Paron, John F. Shroder, Giuliano Di Baldassarre
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 1 0 1 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 1 0 2 - 6
Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, 2e, provides an integrated look at the major disasters that have had, and continue to have, major implications for many of th… Read more

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Request a sales quoteHydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, 2e, provides an integrated look at the major disasters that have had, and continue to have, major implications for many of the world’s people, such as floods and droughts. This new edition takes a geoscientific approach to the topic, while also covering current thinking about some scientific issues that are socially relevant and can directly affect human lives and assets. This new edition showcases both academic and applied research conducted in developed and developing countries, allowing readers to see the most updated flood and drought modeling research and their applications in the real world, including for humanitarian emergency purposes.
Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, 2e,
also contains new insights about how climate change affects hazardous processes. For the first time, information on the many diverse topics relevant to professionals is aggregated into one volume. It is a valuable reference to researchers, graduates, scientists, physical geographers, urban planners, landscape architects, and other people who work on the build environments of the world.- Cutting-edge discussion of natural hazard topics that affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of people worldwide
- Includes numerous full-color tables, GIS maps, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs of hazardous process in action
- Provides case studies of prominent hydro-meteorological hazards and disasters
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Section I. Floods
- Chapter 1. Flood processes and hazards
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Flood types and their processes
- 1.3. Flood hazard probabilities
- 1.4. Floods in a changing world
- Chapter 2. Paleoflood hydrology: reconstructing rare events and extreme flood discharges
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Paleoflood approaches and methodology
- 2.3. Geological and botanical paleoflood data
- 2.4. Dating paleoflood evidence
- 2.5. Paleoflood discharge estimation
- 2.6. Flood frequency analysis using paleoflood data
- 2.7. Estimation of paleoflood volume
- 2.8. Applied paleoflood hydrology
- 2.9. Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Global and low-cost topographic data to support flood studies
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Test site and data availability
- 3.3. Inundation modeling
- 3.4. The effect of topography resolution on inundation modeling
- 3.5. Uncertainty analysis within a generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation framework
- 3.6. Results and discussion
- 3.7. Conclusions
- Chapter 4. Vulnerability and exposure in developed and developing countries: large-scale assessments
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Vulnerability: definitions and complexity
- 4.3. Approaches to vulnerability
- 4.4. Methodology
- 4.5. Coping with flood vulnerability in developing countries
- 4.6. Coping with flood vulnerability in developed countries
- 4.7. Discussions and perspectives
- Annex 1. PO’S delta communes abbreviations
- Annex 2. Awareness and preparedness indicator scaled
- Chapter 5. Integrated risk assessment and decision support for water-related disasters
- 5.1. Introduction and state of the art of risk assessment methods and decision-making for water-related disasters
- 5.2. Methodological framework for integrated risk assessment
- 5.3. The evaluation of benefits of risk reduction
- 5.4. The social dimension: adaptive and coping capacities for risk prevention
- 5.5. The implementation of the KULTURisk framework
- 5.6. A demonstration of SERRA applied to flood risk in the city of Dhaka
- 5.7. Final remarks
- Chapter 6. Flood risk assessment in the Ubaye Valley (Barcelonnette, France)
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Methodology
- 6.3. Results and discussion
- 6.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Flood modeling: practical exercises
- 7.1. Introduction to flood modeling
- 7.2. Exercise 1: numerical flood modeling in lisflood-FP
- 7.3. Further exercises
- 7.4. Appendix: governing equations for lisflood-FP solvers
- Chapter 8. Rapid onset shocks: the importance of understanding impacts of flood disasters
- 8.1. Introduction to rapid onset flood disasters and its relevance in the humanitarian context
- 8.2. Disaster monitoring systems and platforms
- 8.3. Flood alerting, detection, and impact mapping
- 8.4. Flood impact and exposure analysis
- 8.5. Outlook
- Section II. Droughts
- Chapter 9. Drought monitoring and assessment: remote sensing and modeling approaches for the famine early warning systems network
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Rainfall-based drought monitoring
- 9.3. Vegetation index-based drought monitoring
- 9.4. Model-driven drought indicators
- 9.5. Hazard outlook (short-term drought bulletin)
- 9.6. Validation of drought indicators
- 9.7. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 10. Role of hydrological modeling in drought assessment
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Droughts as a natural hazard worldwide
- 10.3. Characterization of droughts: drought indices
- 10.4. Significance of hydrological models for drought assessment
- 10.5. Case study: hydrological drought assessment for the Limpopo basin
- 10.6. Conclusions
- Chapter 11. An assessment of climate extremes in Mbale Municipality in Eastern Uganda
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Materials and methods
- 11.3. Results and discussion
- 11.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 12. iMSEP: a GIT-based digital solution for disaster management
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. System architecture
- 12.3. Results
- 12.4. Conclusions
- Chapter 13. Droughts and floods: people's perception of hydrological risk
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Occurrence and perceptions
- 13.3. Methods
- 13.4. Results
- 13.5. Discussion and conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 2
- Published: August 17, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 386
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128191019
- eBook ISBN: 9780128191026
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Paolo Paron
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John F. Shroder
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Giuliano Di Baldassarre
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