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News International Flood Initiative Book Series

The Section of Hydrological Processes and Climate, Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO IHP has launched a new book series on floods as a contribution to the International Flood Initiative (IFI). The objective of the book series is to provide sound knowledge to the theory of flood disaster management and practice under the current climate change conditions. Best practices around the world and state of the art knowledge will be presented together with a set of computational tools for practical applications. Four publications are envisaged dealing with:

a. Extreme Precipitation and Climate Change
b. Hydrologic Modeling of Floods
c. Flood Inundation Modeling
d. Flood Risk Management
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Contact information n/a
News type Inbrief
File link http://typo38.unesco.org/index.php?id=240
Source of information UNESCO-IHP
Keyword(s) climate change, flood risk management
Subject(s) HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY
Relation http://www.emwis.org/topics/floods
Geographical coverage n/a
News date 07/12/2010
Working language(s) ENGLISH
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