Floods, from Defence to Management
Symposium Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Flood Defence, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 25-27 May 2005| By: | Jos van Alphen |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415391191 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781439833513 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2006 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Floods are natural events, but when they impact on human environments, they turn into disasters which disrupt society. The last decades have seen an alarming increase in the number of major floods and associated damage on every continent. The impact is more severe due to population growth and settlement in flood prone areas, climate change and disr