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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 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.
List of contents
Section I - Floods
1. Flood Processes and Hazards
2. Palaeoflood Hydrology: Reconstructing Rare Events and Extreme Flood Discharges
3. Global and Low-Cost Topographic Data to Support Flood Studies
4. Vulnerability and Exposure in Developed and Developing Countries: Large-Scale Assessments
5. Integrated Risk Assessment of Water-Related Disasters
6. KULTURisk Methodology Application: Ubaye Valley (Barcelonnette, France)
7. Floods and Storms Practical Exercises
8. Rapid Onset Shocks: the importance of understanding impacts of flood disasters
Section II - Droughts
9. Drought Monitoring and Assessment: Remote Sensing and Modeling Approaches for the Famine Early Warning Systems Network
10. Hydrological Modeling for Drought Assessment
11. Drought¿and water shortages in Mbale, Uganda
12. Web-based disaster¿risk management system
13. Integrating social science methods into drought risk studies
About the author
Paolo is a Senior Lecturer at IHE Delft in the River Basin Development research group. He has more than 15 years of combined professional experience in the Humanitarian, Professional and Academic world in the areas of mapping, geology and geomorphology and remote sensing. In the last years he has been developing methods and tools for the use of UAV in hydraulic research including flood mapping as well as in ecology and soil erosion. He has worked and lived extensively in Eastern and Southern Africa with shorter assignments in Asia and East Asia, and at present he is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
