Water and Disasters

This book is the first major attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, the many issues associated with water and disasters. It is particularly relevant and topical in view of the increasing frequency and intensity of water-triggered disasters that have afflicted the world in recent years, among them the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.

1. Water and Disasters - Crafting Creative Solutions / Chennat Gopalakrishnan and Norio Okada 2. Promoting Disaster Resilient Communities: The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004 and the Resulting Indian Ocean Tsunami / Jason K. Levy and Chennat Gopalakrishnan 3. Floods as Catalysts for Policy Change: Historical Lessons from England and Wales / Clare L. Johnson, Sylvia M. Tunstall and Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell 4. Quantified Analysis of the Probability of Flooding in the Thames Estuary under Imaginable Worst-case Sea Level Rise Scenarios / R. J. Dawson, J. W. Hall, P.D. Bates and R. J. Nicholls 5. Advances in Decision Support Systems for Flood Disaster Management: Challenges and Opportunities / Jason K. Levy, Chennat Gopalakrishnan and Zhaohui Lin 6. Integrated Risk Management of Flood Disasters in Metropolitan Areas of China / Peijun Shi, Yi Ge, Yi Yuan & Weiping Guo 7. Rapid Economic Assessment of Flood-Control Failure among the Rio Grande: A Case Study / Zhuping Sheng, Allen Sturdivant, Ari Michelsen and Ron Lacewell 8. Adoption of More Technically Efficient Irrigation Systems as a Drought Response / Eric C. Schuck, W. Marshall Frasier, Robert S. Webb, Lindsey J. Ellingson and Wendy J. Umberger 9. Rainfall Insurance: A Promising Tool for Drought Management / Kimberley A Zeuli and Jerry K. Skees Index