Gopalakrishnan, Chennat, ed.

Water and Disasters / edited by Chennat Gopalakrishnan - Oxon: Routledge, 2007. - vii, 136 p.

1. Water and Disasters: Crafting Creative Solutions --
2. Promoting Disaster Resilient Communities: The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004 and the Resulting Indian Ocean Tsunami --
3. Floods as Catalysts for Policy Change: Historical Lessons from England and Wales --
4. Quantified Analysis of the Probability of Flooding in the Thames Estuary Under Imaginable Worst-Case Sea Level Rise Scenarios --
5. Advances in Decision Support Systems for Flood Disaster Management: Challenges and Opportunities --
6. Integrated Risk Management of Flood Disasters in Metropolitan Areas of China --
7. Rapid Economic Assessment of Flood-Control Failure Among the Rio Grande: A Case Study --
8. Adoption of More Technically Efficient Irrigation Systems as a Drought Response --
9. Rainfall Insurance: A Promising Tool for Drought Management

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