This book details the impact of flooding on our environment, and the ways in which communities, and those that work with them, can act to manage the associated risks....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-2023, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003428855)
This book explores flood disasters, their impact in the world and the Indian context, assessing vulnerability and risks involved, and systematic use of GIS-enabled platforms to map mitigation measures sustainably, with special reference to the metro...Loe edasi...
This new handbook brings together various views and experiences of the impacts of flooding and its management in Africa, Asia and Latin America by drawing from traditional and modern approaches adopted by communities, homeowners, academics, project...Loe edasi...
Global climate change has generated new rainfall extremes, with unprecedented floods, landslides and debris flows. This text presents recent conceptual developments in disasters, risk, and resilience; surveys UN policies; and gives an integrated app...Loe edasi...
This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection me...Loe edasi...
This book offers a historical assessment of Jakartas water management practices from the colonial era through the to Jakartas emergence as a sprawling megacity. It will be a useful reference to those who research on topics such as urbanization in So...Loe edasi...
Highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices, one that acknowledges the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary benefits brought by public space design. It aims to challenge engineers, architects or urban planners to...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1986, Floods and Drainage advanced hazard response theory. Based on fifteen years of research, the book analyses institutional and political forces, important in the analysis of hazard responses and policies....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2019, Kirjastus: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780429347986)
This book educates and introduce readers to the ways in which we can adapt to the threat of flooding throughout the built and natural environment. It offers advice on how to better understand the nature of flood risk, whilst highlighting the key app...Loe edasi...
This research explores the benefits of merging side-view Structure-from-Motion data with conventional top-view LiDAR data to create a novel multi-source views (MSV) topographic description of complex urban topographies....Loe edasi...
This book delivers a wealth of information on changes in flood risk in Europe, and considers causes for change. The temporal coverage is mostly focused on post-1900 events, reflecting the typical availability of data, but some information on earlier...Loe edasi...
