Floods are difficult to prevent but can be managed in order to reduce their environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts. Flooding poses a serious threat to life and property, and therefore it’s very important that flood risks be taken into account during any planning process. This handbook presents different aspects of flooding in the context of a changing climate and across various geographical locations. Written by experts from around the world, it examines flooding in various climates and landscapes, taking into account environmental, ecological, hydrological, and geomorphic factors, and considers urban, agriculture, rangeland, forest, coastal, and desert areas.
Features
- Presents the main principles and applications of the science of floods, including engineering and technology, natural science, as well as sociological implications.
- Examines flooding in various climates and diverse landscapes, taking into account environmental, ecological, hydrological, and geomorphic factors.
- Considers floods in urban, agriculture, rangeland, forest, coastal, and desert areas
- Covers flood control structures as well as preparedness and response methods.
- Written in a global context, by contributors from around the world.
Written by experts from around the world, this book examines flooding in various climates and landscapes, taking into account environmental, ecological, hydrological, and geomorphic factors, and considers urban, agriculture, rangeland, forest, coastal, and desert areas.
Volume I: Flood Principles and Applications (27)
Part I: An Introduction to Flooding
Flash Flood Definition: Characteristics, Sources and Analysis-David Archer
Geomorphoogy and Flooding-Giovanni Barrocu
Mediterranean Flooding- Samir Algamal
Arid Zone Flooding-Hassan Rezaei Sadr
Hydroelectric and Floods-R. K. Saket
Part II: Social Aspects and Guidelines
Social Aspects of Flooding-Bintul Huda Mir
Stakeholder Collaboration in Flood Risk Management-Karen Potter
Impacts of flooding on Nigeria Educational Sector and Innovative
Solutions-Benjamin Anabaraonye
International Law and Policies on Floods-Sergio Peña Neira
Guidelines for Unit Hydrograph Analyses-Richard McCuen
Parst III: Past Floods
History of World Extreme Floods-Mousa Maleki
Isotope Techniques in Flood Analysis- Samir Algamal
Paleoflood and Historical Flood Hydrology-Victor R. Baker
Bankfull Stage and Flood Return Periods- Iftekhar Ahmed
Dominant Discharge of Rivers- Iftekhar Ahmed
Flood Mark Applications-Niranjan Bhattacharjee
Part IV: Food Measurement and Estimation
Regional Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves in Algeria-Bénina Touaibia
Dynamic Curve Numbers: Concept and Application-Sara Nazif
Application of SCS-CN for Estimating Runoff on Arid Watershed-Dilip Kumar
Ghose
Flood Hydrograph and Base Flow Separation using the Web Based Hydrograph
Analysis Tool -Never Mujere
Part V: Flood Control and Uses
Closed Drainage Systems-Qin Qian
Flood Water Harvesting- Nasir Rather
Flood Spreading-Reza Ghazavi
Biotechnology and Flood-Resistant Rice-Saima Aslam
A Novel Groundwater Recharge using Storm water Drainage-Jayantial Patel
Part VI: Flooding and Quality Aspects
Sampling and Analytical Techniques for Flood Water Quality
Monitoring-Josephine Treacy
Watershed Contamination by a Copper Mine with Flooding-Emery Coppola Jr.
Volume II: Flood Analysis and Modeling (27)
Part I: An Introduction to Flooding and Human
Floods and People-Colin Green
Part II: Food Observation and Modeling Uncertainty
Importance of Hydrological and Meteorological Measurements and Observation
Flood Observation Uncertainty-Jean-François Vuillaume
Flood Modeling and Forecasting Uncertainty-Jean-François Vuillaume
Part III: Flood Modeling and Forecasting
Empirical Modelling in Design Flood Estimation-Akshay Rajan Thorvat
Flood Forecasting Time Series or Flood Frequency Analysis-Priyanka Sharma
Stable Channel Design of Tapi River Using Hec-Ras For Surat Region-Darshan J.
Mehta
Hydro-Morpho Dynamics of River Junctions Characteristics and Advanced
Modeling-Hydar Lafta Ali
Shallow Water Flow Modelling-Franziska Tügel
Part IV: Flood, River Restoration and Climate Change
Modelling Approach in Forecasting Changes Caused By In-Stream River
Restoration Structures-Tomasz Kaluzal
Impact of Climate Change on Flooding-Conrad Wasko
Sea Level Rise Due to Climate Change- Brij Bhushan
Part V: Flood Optimization and Simulation
Real-time Operation of Reservoirs during Flood Conditions using
Optimization/Simulation-Larry Mays
Application of Physically-Based Distributed Flood Models Towards Large-Scale
Flood Simulations-S. Saksena
Continuous Large-scale Simulation Models in Flood Studies-Rouzbeh Nazari
Part VI: Flood Softwares
Riverine and Flood Modeling Softwares-Mustafa Goodarzi
Flood Modelling Using Open Source Software-Thomas J Scanlon
Iterative Floodway Modelling Using HEC-RAS and GIS- Majid Galoie
Flood Plain Mapping using HRC-RAS and ArcGIS-Mehdi Vafakhah
Geospatial Techniques, Flood Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Mapping in GIS
GAP-Ali Akbar Jamali
Part VII: Flood Regionalization
Determining the High Flood Risk Regions Using a Rainfall-Runoff Modeling-
Iftekhar Ahmed
Geostatistics and Flooding-Homogeneous Regions Delineation for Multivariate
Regional FA-E. Gargouri
Application of L moments Based Index Flood Approach: A Case Study for NSW,
Ayesha Rahman
NASA Near-Real-Time Global Precipitation Products for Flood Modeling,
Assessment, and Research- Zhong Liu
Part VIII: Flood Softcomputing
Real time Flood Hydrograph Predictions using Soft Computing and Rating Curve
Methods- Gokmen Tayfur
Application of Integral Transforms in Hydrology-Vahid Nourani
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis For Flood Risk Assessment-Daniel Jato-Espino
Volume III: Flood Impact and Management (27)
Part I: Flood and Sustainability
Sustainability in Flood Management-Fernando Alcoforado
Hydrological Resilience of Large Lakes Management-Mike Ahmadi
Best Management Practices as an Alternative for Food Control
Part II: Flood Impact Analysis
Flood Management: Status, Causes and Impact of Land Use on Flood in
Brahmaputra
Impact of Urbanization on Flooding
Impact of Infiltration on Volume and Peak of Flood-Saeid Eslamian
Impact of Bed Form on River Flow Resistance-Saeid Okhravi
Catchment Morphometric Characteristics Impact on Floods Management: Role of
Geospatial Technology
Part III: Flood Risk Management
Floods: From Risk to Opportunity-Iftekhar Ahmed
Flood Risk Management in Romania- Daniel Diaconu
Importance of Risk Mapping in the Processes of Spatial Planning in
Spain-Jorge Olcina Cantos
Reducing Flood Risk in Spain: The Role of Spatial planning, Alvaro-Francisco
Morote Seguido
Integrated Coastal Flood Risk Analysis-Andreas
Burzel-Andreas.Burzel@deltares.nl-Dilani Dassanayake
River Rehabilitation For Flood Protection-Tomasz Walczykiewicz
Torrential and Flash Flood Warning: General Overview and Uses of Localized
Hydropower-Spyros Schismenos
Part IV: Flood Hazard and Damages
Flood and Building Damages-Mousa Maleki
Flood Mapping, Monitoring and Damage Assessment using Geospatial
Technology-Vaibhav Garg
Fundamental Issues of Flood Hazard In the Alluvial Fan Environment-Jonathan
Fuller
Physical Vulnerability, Flood Damage, and Adjustments Examining the Factors
affecting damage to Residential Buildings in Eastern
Dhaka-Md Nawrose Fatemi
Part V: Flood Erosion and Sediment
River Flood Erosion and Land Development and Management-Giovanni Barrocu
Debris and Solid Waste in Flood Plain Management-Sama Al-Jubouri
A Sedimentary Investigation into Origin and Composition of a Dam
Reservoir-Hallouz Faiza
Sedimentation and Geomorphological Changes during Floods: Selected
Problems-Leszek Starkel
Part VI: Flooding and Dam Construction
Dam Failure Assessment for Sustainable Flood Retention Basins-MIklas Scholz
Simulating Flood due to Dam Break-Zafer Bozku
Modelling the Propagation of the Submersion wave in Case of a Dam
Break-Bouhellala Kharfia
River Restoration as Flood Impact Mitigation-Osvaldo Rezende
Dr. Saeid Eslamian is professor of Hydrology at Isfahan University of Technology, where he heads the Hydrology Research Group in the Department of Water Engineering. His research focuses mainly on statistical and environmental hydrology and climate change. In particular, he is working on modeling and prediction of natural hazards including flood, drought, storms, wind, groundwater drawdown, and pollution for arid and semi-arid zones, particularly in urban areas. He is also a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and University of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He has contributed to more than 300 publications in books, research journals, and technical reports or papers in conferences. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of both the International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology and the Journal of Flood Engineering. He received ASCE and EWRI awards in 2009 and 2010 for his research.
Faezeh A. Eslamian is a PhD candidate of bioresource engineering and research assistant at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is currently working on the fate and transport of phosphorus through subsurface drained farmlands. Dr. Eslamian completed her bachelors and masters degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, where she evaluated natural and low-cost absorbents for the removal of pollutants such as textile dyes and heavy metals. Furthermore, she has conducted research on the worldwide water quality standards, wastewater reuse, and drought guidelines.
