"Flood risk management is presented in this book as a framework for identifying, assessing and prioritizing climate-related risks and developing appropriate adaptation responses. Rigorous assessment is employed to determine the available probabilistic and fuzzy set-based analytic tools, when each is appropriate and how to apply them to practical problems. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, environmental science and policy...

A guidebook for communities. Protecting Floodplain Resources. This guidebook has been written to introduce officials and citizens at the local level to a basic understanding of natural resources in floodplains. Offers suggestions for creating strategies to manage these important areas.

Briefly presents specific survival strategies that can be used in a flood.