Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and Its Lagoon - State of Knowledge

Informationen zum Autor Tom Spencer is Director of the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit. Caroline Fletcher is Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit and Principal Scientist at HR Wallingford Ltd. Klappentext A technical volume exploring the prospects for decreasing the level of flooding in and around Venice. Zusammenfassung This timely scientific and technical volume synthesises the great wealth and diversity of recent interdisciplinary research on Venice and its Lagoon and the prospects for large engineering interventions to separate the lagoon and sea in the hope of preventing the increasing frequency of the city's flooding. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction; Part II. Geological and Environmental Context; Part III. Urban Flooding and the Urban System; Part IV. Large-scale Engineering Solutions to Storm Surge Flooding; Part V. The Venice Lagoon; Part VI. The Venice Lagoon; Part VII. Venice and It's Lagoon; Part VIII. Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: C. A. Fletcher, C. A. (University of Cambridge) Spencer Fletcher, C.a. (University of Cambridge) Spencer Fletcher
• Assisted by: C. A. Fletcher (Editor), T. Spencer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521124140
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12414-0
• No. of pages: 736
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research